GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 633916
Applet icon does not match actual state
Last modified: 2016-03-11 17:42:29 UTC
Created attachment 173778 [details] Screenshot of problem Icon shows me as disconnected, but is connected to a wireless network (internet works fine). I was connected to a different wireless network on a VPN, and when I switched to this one it showed me as disconnected even though the switch worked fine. Problem encountered in Linux Mint 9 XFCE.
Created attachment 173779 [details] Exceprt from /var/log/daemon.log (ip's and mac addresses redacted to protect the innocent)
When this happens again, can you run 'nm-tool' for me?
Created attachment 174058 [details] output from nm-tool
Created attachment 226045 [details] nm-tool.output.20121008-2202.log Running NetworkManager-applet 0.9.6.2 with GNOME 3.6 and I still get this issue. At this instant my applet icon seems stuck with the 'network-wireless-acquiring-symbolic' being displayed. Though I am surely online. I can access the applet and all the menus. It's just that the icon is wrong and never moved on to 'network-wireless-connected-symbolic'. The log attached shows that I am indeed connected via Wireless according to nm-tool. Also, the information on these sites is out of date (will create a separate bug for that): https://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
On my system, the icon does not switch to disconnected mode when the network connection is lost. I'm using a USB mobile broadband modem, and if I physically remove it, the icon still keeps showing the signal strength bars even though the connection is gone. It will update if I use the menu to select a different connection. I'm using Fedora 18 and I have network-manager-applet-0.9.7.997-1.fc18.x86_64 NetworkManager-0.9.8.0-1.fc18.x86_64 kernel-3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64
I just noticed another bit of odd behaviour of the icon. While Wi-Fi was turned off, I removed the USB modem that was in use, and the icon kept showing the mobile broadband signal strength bars. Mobile broadband did disappear from the menu. I then turned on the Wi-Fi toggle, and got a Wi-Fi connection automatically, with the appropriate wireless signal strength icon. I then turned off the Wi-Fi toggle, the network was disconnected, but the icon switched to showing the mobile broadband signal bars! At that point, there wasn't even a mobile broadband modem on the system and the menu didn't have any mobile broadband options. The broadband signal bars do appear reproducibly every time if I repeat the steps.
Cleaning up the old bugs that didn't get addressed. Sorry you didn't hear from us. I spent time time trying to reproduce this, but can not, so chances are that with the current Git master the bug is already fixed. If it's still a problem feel free to reopen.