GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 667727
Networking icon disappears when mobile broadband is connected
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:34:04 UTC
Created attachment 205056 [details] Screen capture of my notifications area in the panel Ubuntu 11.10 using Gnome Session Fallback. Networking icon in the notifications area works as expected when using Ethernet or Wifi. When using mobile broadband (Huawei USB stick) the icon is there before I connect and is animated while connecting. Once I'm connected to the Internet the icon disappears: however, there's still an empty space where the icon should be and if I mouse-hover over this empty space I see that my mobile broadband connection is connected and active. I can also left or right click on this empty space and get the normal functionality as if I'd clicked on the networking icon (I can disconnect, or right-click and view or edit my connection information.) It acts as though the networking icon is still there but invisible. This is a recent installation of Ubuntu (5 days old.)
This is potentially an Ubuntu-specific issue, but if not, it's a nm-applet bug. Could be an issue with the icon theme? Maybe change it?
Jay: Have you filed this issue in Ubuntu's bugtracker?
Vincent: it behaves the same way under all icon themes that I've tried (those that came with Ubuntu.) It would be nice to see if it can be duplicated under any other Linux distro that also uses Gnome Session Fallback, but unfortunately I'm not in a position to play with other distros as I need my laptop for work. André: no, as the problem only occurs when I log in using Gnome Session Fallback, which I don't think is supported by Ubuntu these days as they've switched from a standard gnome to their Unity desktop manager as the default.
Jay, does happen every time? Do you have icons in /usr/share/icons? /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nm-wwan-tower.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nm-tech*.png When you click the empty icon, is the menu all right? (size of WiFi signal icons, etc.) Would you include .xsession-errors file from your home directory?
Created attachment 206047 [details] .xsession-errors as requested
My reply seems to have disappeared, but anyway: It happens every time I connect to the 'net via my Huawei f1552 USB stick. I do have those icons in the directory you mentioned. I have full menu access and functionality when I right- or left-click on the empty area where the icon should be. .xsession-error attached.
(And the menu items look fine- I see the antenna & signal strength bars icon next to my active mobile broadband connection when I left-click. Right-clicking on the empty space shows the checkmark icon next to enable mobile broadband, the blue circle with the letter i next to connection information and the pencil icon next to edit connections.)
I have a similar problem (Arch Linux, NetworkManager 0.9.10.0). nm-applet always crashes when I wake up my laptop from suspend in the moment the mobile broadband hardware is being re-activated. nm-applet outputs the following to the console: raphael ~ $ nm-applet nm-applet:ERROR:applet-device-broadband.c:634:get_icon: assertion failed: (info) zsh: abort (core dumped) nm-applet Even if this is would turn out to be a problem with my iconset (which is the default one here), I do not believe this should _not_ lead to a crash.
bugzilla.gnome.org is being shut down in favor of a GitLab instance. We are closing all old bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen updates for a long time. If you still use NetworkManager and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and supported version of NetworkManager, then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/ Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented (workforce and time is unfortunately limited).