Comment 0 for bug 1774957

Ever since the update to Ubuntu 18.04 I'm having issues with the status menu at the top right of the screen.

Normally you'd have a wired network connection icon displayed at the top without opening the menu. In my case it is not displayed have of the time. In the menu list no icon nor label is displayed for the wired connection menu item.

When connecting to a VPN, normally you'd get an additional icon at the top. This is not the case any more, nor does the switch behind an activated VPN turns change to an active state. The result is that you can activate a VPN using the switch, but you can verify that it is activated, nor can you de-active the VPN through the menu. This does change in settings though.

Wireless settings are no longer displayed in the menu at all. So no way to activate it or connect to a specific network.

I tried reconfiguring (dpkg-reconfigure) gnome-shell as well as network-manager-gnome, to no avail.

Attached you'll find a screenshot illustrating the issue. You'll see two icons missing to the left of the volume icon, as well as the wireless menu missing completely and no icon and text label for the wired connection menu item.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 4 10:47:05 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-07 (604 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-31 (3 days ago)