nm-applet fails with useless error window

[Chris Lee]

I decided to try network manager on Dapper. apt-get installs it fine, and /etc/syslog shows that NetworkManager is happy with my wireless card (orinoco_cs).

When I tried to run nm-applet, however, I get a pop-up window saying (roughly) that nm-applet cannot run because it cannot find the "necessary resources". I don't see anything in the system logs that helps me understand what it cannot find. I tried running with strace, but it keeps spewing output long after the message box is opened so I can't track what nm-applet was doing when the problem occurred. nm-applet also complains about a missing icon, and no icon shows-up in my notification area in gnome-panel.

If the error message in nm-applet would tell me what "resources" it couldn't find, I might be able to track down the problem, but the error message doesn't help me.

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

I was trying network-mananger 0.5.1-0ubuntu6

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

The error message is

"The NetworkManager applet could not find some required resources. It cannot continue."

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I just tried with the same version and didn't reproduce the bug.
Is the issue still present ?

Can you try:
 strace nm-applet
and give the output (as an attached file if too big)

[Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian)]

This still fails on dapper, i386. shell output is:

** (nm-applet:8854): WARNING **: Icon nm-stage01-connecting01 missing: Kuvaketta "nm-stage01-connecting01" ei ole teemassa

and:

(nm-applet:8854): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

repeats many times.

strace attached

[Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian)]

Strace output, had to ^C at the end

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

What theme are you using ?

Do you have the same result:
$ dpkg -L network-manager | grep nm-stage01-connecting01
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nm-stage01-connecting01.png

Does this file really exist ?

[Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian)]

wolverian@pupu:~$ dpkg -L network-manager|grep nm-stage01-connecting01
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nm-stage01-connecting01.png

wolverian@pupu:~$ dpkg -L network-manager|grep nm-stage01-connecting01|xargs ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 2006-01-26 13:43 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nm-stage01-connecting01.png

I'm using the latest Dapper Clearlooks. Same result (i.e. crash) with Human.

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

I also have the problem with both human and clearlooks themes.

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

Maybe network-manager needs to update the icon/theme cache on install or something (I'll give that a try..).

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

This fixed it:
 sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/

Calling this without the -f didn't work, interestingly enough (maybe there is a timestamp problem?)

[Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian)]

The gtk-update-icon-cache fixed this issue for me. I didn't check timestamps beforehand, though. If there's info I can still provide, please ask, I'd be glad to help.

[Chris Lee (chris-lee-gertner)]

I haven't had a problem with this for a while. I suggest that the bug be closed!! Thanks.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Closing per submitters request.

[André Cruz (andrefcruz)]

I just downloaded the daily cdimage of dapper (10-04-2006) and nm-applet still has this issue.

After I ran gtk-update-icon-cache the problem was solved but this should have been done when I installed network-manager-gnome.

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Still occurs in Dapper indeed, using gtk-update-icon-cache fixes the issue.

[Chilly (adam.chilcott)]

I'm still recieving this. I used a distribution from the bigpond file library named "ubuntu dapper drake 6.06 beta i386" I activated all repositories except for the backports, downloaded and installed all updates then installed NetworkManager. I tried gtk-update-icon-cache but it does not fix this issue.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

This error is back for me after a fresh install of the Dapper RC (as of May 29 2006)

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

I have experienced the same problem on a fresh installation of Edgy on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop (ipw3945 chipset). Running 'sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/' fixed it.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

It looks to me as though Bug #45609 and Bug #6473 are duplicates of Bug #37128.