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Bug 701124 - VPN indicator never displayed
VPN indicator never displayed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 700394
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: network-indicator
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-28 10:54 UTC by Lionel Landwerlin
Modified: 2013-05-28 11:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
VPN with ethernet (19.93 KB, image/png)
2013-05-28 10:54 UTC, Lionel Landwerlin 		Details
VPN with wifi (35.27 KB, image/png)
2013-05-28 10:54 UTC, Lionel Landwerlin 		Details

Description Lionel Landwerlin 2013-05-28 10:54:14 UTC 
Since the 3.8.2 release, I've noticed that the VPN icon in the top panel is not displayed anymore.
Comment 1 Lionel Landwerlin 2013-05-28 10:54:34 UTC 
Created attachment 245446 [details]
VPN with ethernet
Comment 2 Lionel Landwerlin 2013-05-28 10:54:55 UTC 
Created attachment 245447 [details]
VPN with wifi
Comment 3 Lionel Landwerlin 2013-05-28 10:59:40 UTC 
Reverting the following commit appears fixed the problem :
 
commit eb2e66c539ef80b4119fd991cf555502974ee86c
Author: Giovanni Campagna <gcampagna@src.gnome.org>
Date:   Wed May 8 23:54:32 2013 +0200

    network: don't use active connections that are in invalid states
    
    Only ACTIVE or ACTIVATING connections are important when deciding
    what icon to show, don't fallback on any, possibly invalid or deactivating,
    active connection object.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676285
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2013-05-28 11:01:49 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 700394 ***