nm-applet not showing

[whitethorn]

I can't find the nm-applet at the top right of the screen. I've checked in my session and NetworkManager is checked. When I try to run nm-applet in the terminal I get

$nm-applet

** (nm-applet:6578): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service as it is already taken. Return: 3


(nm-applet:6578): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

I also have a wired connection to my network. I've tried restarting the NetworkManager, and the networking services. Didn't help. Notification area is active at the top right of my screen.

A couple days ago I set up VirtualBox with host interface networking. I'm not sure is this what messed it up. Here's my ifconfig (oh sudo dhclient br0 works)

~|$ifconfig
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:26:60:8e
inet addr:192.168.178.31 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fe26:608e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1153190 (1.1 MB) TX bytes:254615 (254.6 KB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:26:60:8e
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fe26:608e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5002945 (5.0 MB) TX bytes:704907 (704.9 KB)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9060 (9.0 KB) TX bytes:9060 (9.0 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:7d:0b:04:84
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0B-7D-0B-04-84-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Oh here's my /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto br0

iface br0 inet dhcp

bridge_ports eth0

up chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet manual

[frankleeee]

After upgrading to intrepid my nm-applet was there after multiple restarts but disappeared a couple of days ago there are several threads on this very problem. I installed wicd that worked as far as being able to have a applet to switch wireless when I go to school.
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

[whitethorn]

Is there a way to connect to the vpn tunnel I set up in Administration -> Network Configuration. I used to just click on the applet for that, but since it's not there anymore I can't. I need it to connect to the network at my work.

[whitethorn]

bump

[whitethorn]

Don't really like bumping my thread, but I can't find anything on google about this. Help pls.

[Farhadi]

I have the same problem. I installed VirtualBox with Host Interface too. and after that nm-applet tray icon was disappeared.

I have read somewhere in VirtualBox forums that nm-applet can't handle a bridge properly.

It seems nm-applet is running but it's not visible because when you try to run it again you got that error, but when you kill it by using "killall nm-applet" and run it again you don't get any error.

[Melvin1981]

You can look this thread. Solution helped me to get back nm-applet to notification area.
The idea is to clear your /etc/network/interfaces file (except lines with lo interface) and reboot. After reboot nm-applet is on its place.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153481