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Bug 589207 - Icon disappears
Icon disappears
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
0.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-21 05:35 UTC by Jorge
Modified: 2010-04-04 18:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Jorge 2009-07-21 05:35:33 UTC 
Sometimes, after I restart my computer (Dell Mini 12) the NetworkManager icon does not appear, and since I am new to the Unix/Linux/Ubuntu family, I really have NO clue how to connect to the internet without this NetworkManager icon. When this happened for the first time, I looked onto the "Add a Panel" on the task bar, but I could not find the application. So now, I just restarted the computer again (usally three times) until the icon appears. Then it is all good.
Comment 1 emilio 2009-11-23 08:39:10 UTC 
This bug is confirmed by several users of ubuntu 9.10. The workaround is to remove and add again the "Notification area" from the top panel

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/446093
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-02-01 22:30:43 UTC 
You should be getting some crash logs from apport when the applet goes away; we'll need those to determine where the icon is dying.  Alternatively, you can do the following in a terminal:

killall -TERM nm-applet
gdb nm-applet
run

and wait until the applet crashes (gdb will say something like "received signal SIGSEGV") and the type "backtrace" and paste the output into this bug.
Comment 3 emilio 2010-02-02 09:02:13 UTC 
This bug is now fixed
Comment 4 Tobias Mueller 2010-04-04 18:56:41 UTC 
Closning as OBSOLETE as per last comment.