Oh.. I should add: It wasn't just that the network manager wasn't there on boot, as in the bug title. If the network-manager service was started, the network manager would appear, but pretty much every entry in the drop-down would be greyed out, so no connections could be established, such as wireless/VPN etc. The only way I could get an internet connection was to first start the network-manager service and then plug in a cable.
Oh.. I should add: It wasn't just that the network manager wasn't there on boot, as in the bug title. If the network-manager service was started, the network manager would appear, but pretty much every entry in the drop-down would be greyed out, so no connections could be established, such as wireless/VPN etc. The only way I could get an internet connection was to first start the network-manager service and then plug in a cable.