GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 727727
Question mark wifi icon (no route)
Last modified: 2019-04-19 06:29:26 UTC
I don't understand why there is an exclamation mark on my wifi indicator. I'm properly connected on my wifi AP, there is no wifi portal or anything of that sort.
Created attachment 273685 [details] screenshot
The icon is for the "no route" state - when you are connected to a network, but can't access the internet. It's generally displayed when you have to sign in to a wifi network to get internet access. I assume that the icon is being displayed incorrectly?
Yes, indeed :)
what does nmcli g say ?
Sorry, I don't have the latest version of NetworkManager, right now only 0.9.8.8. nmcli g doesn't work. Here is what I can get : $ nmcli d DEVICE TYPE STATE wlan0 802-11-wireless connected $ nmcli nm RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running connected enabled enabled enabled enabled
(In reply to comment #5) > Sorry, I don't have the latest version of NetworkManager, right now only > 0.9.8.8. Then it is expected that it doesn't work: old NM has a bug where it doesn't update the connectivity status properly, and therefore we race and see either the final full state or the intermediate checking/limited state.
I'm having the same problem. $nmcli d DEVICE TYPE STATE wlp3s0 802-11-wireless connected $nmcli nm RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running connected enabled enabled enabled enabled
It might be worth noting that I'm on arch linux and it worked well under gnome 3.10. Only yesterday after updating did I get a question mark icon after updating and connecting to a wifi network. Everything works as expected.
Ah, sorry i didn't realize that I also have 0.9.8.8.
Tentatively closing, as the issue has only been seen with a known-to-be-buggy version of network manager. Please reopen if you can reproduce with a current NM release!
$ nmcli g STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN connected (site only) limited enabled enabled enabled disabled ~ ping google.com PING google.com (173.194.122.230) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 173.194.122.230: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=40.8 ms 64 bytes from 173.194.122.230: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=42.6 ms ^C --- google.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.874/41.768/42.663/0.917 ms $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Fedora Description: Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Release: 22 Codename: TwentyTwo $ rpm -qa NetworkManager NetworkManager-1.0.2-1.fc22.x86_64
I have the same problem on Fedora 22
I just upgraded to Fedora 26 and my Gnome desktop is showing a question mark in place of the Wired Connection icon in my top status bar. The wired connection appears to be working fine, it's a DHCP ethernet connection and I'm having no problems with it. I can connect to websites, email, etc just fine. Any idea why there's a question mark there? Should I file a new bug report about this or is it a recurrence of this bug?
Same problem here on ubuntu 17.10
See comment 4, comment 7, comment 11 how to provide data.
My problem with the question mark resolved itself when I moved from Fedora 26 to Fedora 27. However, I still think there should be some sort of tool-tip on hover to tell users what the meaning of a ! or ? is on the NetworkManager icon. It has no intuitively obvious meaning to a user since it doesn't seem to affect network connectivity and I never did learn what the question mark was supposed to mean.
My Computer have same problem on network icon, a question mark is always there but network is ok. Both on wired network and wifi nmcli g STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN connected (site only) limited enabled enabled enabled disabled