A solution to Fixing the Missing Network Manager Icon in Ubuntu 9.10

[cthulhucookie]

Hello Everyone.

This morning, I booted up my laptop and tried to connect to the school's wireless when I noticed that the icon for Network Manager was missing from the toolbar. I checked to see that Network Manager was running and it was, the icon had just disappeared for some reason. After tinkering around with the panel a little bit, I discovered that if you remove the notification area on the panel (right click the three vertical dots and click "Remove From Panel") and then re-add it ( right click the panel, click "Add to Panel" and search for "Notification Area", then click it) the Network Manager icon will reappear, thus allowing you to connect to wireless networks.

Hope this works if you're having the same problem!

[Aging Aardvark]

Had the same problem upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10.
Just want to say a big thank you to you people who bother to post to this forum.

[Saurabh Deodhar]

Thanks a lott bro. it was very useful. I had a tough tym searchin wat went wrong........ thanks a lott

[Maupertus]

I had (by accident) come to the same conclusion on this point, but it's not really a solution though is it? I was wondering if someone had found a more permanent resolution of the problem.

[cthulhucookie]

I had (by accident) come to the same conclusion on this point, but it's not really a solution though is it? I was wondering if someone had found a more permanent resolution of the problem.

I agree, it isn't a permanent solution. Every time I rebooted the icon would disappear and I'd have to reinstall the notification area. A few days ago, I was forced to do a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 due to some dual-booting issues and I don't have that problem with the network manager icon anymore, it stays on the panel like it's supposed to. If I find a solution to the problem I'll definitely post it to this thread.

[tonyhawz]

it is afecting me also
bug reported at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...et/+bug/482684

[LukonLinux]

Me too, but my connection still works - I just get no feedback.

[dee_tewari]

I got this problem in a fresh install of 9.10!

So I was checking "Startup Applications" (System > Preferences) and I realized that the entry for indicator applet has the following:

sh -c "sleep 60 && python /usr/share/gnome-panel/add-indicator-applet.py"

Just after it comes the entry for Network Manager. Now I'm not sure if they're executed in the order in which they're listed and I highly doubt that also but assuming that they're executed in the same order then the Network Manager would start after the Indicator Applet and that may have something to do with the fact that it's icon is missing from the indicator applet.

So I changed the line above to the following:


sh -c "sleep 90 && python /usr/share/gnome-panel/add-indicator-applet.py"

Now the network manager's icon is there always. If the problem re-appears I'll update that fact here. But for now this change seems to have solved the issue!

[tonyhawz]

it seems to be fixed now, I don't know how or in which point of an update.
The icon is always there, so my guess is: try updating.

[HoTMetaL]

it seems to be fixed now, I don't know how or in which point of an update.
The icon is always there, so my guess is: try updating.

I'm fully up-to-date on updates (karmic-security, karmic-updates) and the problem persists. So, no, it hasn't been fixed. At least not on my machines.