Network connections window is empty (still have network access)

[lUomino]

Sometimes I see the similar failure. It is unfrequent but happens once a while.

What I do to solve this is to kill the process and run it again from console.

killall nm-applet
./nm-applet&

(you can close the console and the applet shoud be still running).

It is so unfrequent and after several days suspending the laptop that I just do this to fix it.

I, too, encounter this problem after my machine (running Ubuntu 12.04, gnome, fully patched) has been running several days, with at least one suspend/resume per day.

It's not troubling enough to me to reconfigure gnome, so I've instead implemented a daily cronjob to reload nm-applet. However, it would be nice to get this fixed, since it's most probably a buffer overwrite or similar someplace.

One caveat for our less-experienced correspondents: nm-applet is in /usr/bin, so './nm-applet &' above will work only if your working directory is /usr/bin. A more general solution is 'nm-applet &'.

I'll probably be upgrading to 12.10 this weekend. so I'll report back if this problem is fixed in 12.10.