Comment 3 for bug 1410253

Same here, this seems to be a regression bug - didnt happen to me on 14.10
When i start NM-Applet from the terminal i get the following message at the time of the crash

nm-applet:ERROR:applet-device-broadband.c:636:get_icon: assertion failed: (info)
Aborted

before that i only saw
** (nm-connection-editor:5944): WARNING **: Unsupported connection type 'generic'
** (nm-connection-editor:5944): WARNING **: Unsupported connection type 'generic'
** (nm-connection-editor:5944): WARNING **: Unsupported connection type 'generic'
(nm-applet:5932): nm-applet-WARNING **: Could not find ShellVersion property on org.gnome.Shell after 5 tries
**

Furthermore the applet is still running - even the connection works

benste@benste-VPCSB3C5E:~$ ps -eaf | grep nm-applet
benste 7981 7963 0 11:53 pts/4 00:00:00 grep --color=auto nm-applet
benste@benste-VPCSB3C5E:~$ ps -eaf | grep NetworkManager | grep -v NetworkManagerDispatcher
root 829 1 0 10:18 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
nobody 1343 829 0 10:18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid --listen-address=127.0.1.1 --conf-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.conf --cache-size=0 --proxy-dnssec --enable-dbus=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq --conf-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d
root 7243 829 0 11:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach lock nodefaultroute ipv6 , ttyUSB10 noipdefault noauth usepeerdns lcp-echo-failure 5 lcp-echo-interval 30 idle 0 ipparam /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/PPP/4 plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.6/nm-pppd-plugin.so
benste 7985 7963 0 11:53 pts/4 00:00:00 grep --color=auto NetworkManager