I'm affected by this too. It seems to happen intermittently without any obvious connection to anything else. I most often notice it more or less directly following a resume from suspend, though that may be a coincidence since that's also the time when I most often want to manually connect to my VPN, having just opened my laptop at a place away from home.
Another symptom when the bug occurs: The nm-indicator does not react to clicks on any of the items. While it may list some Wifi networks as well as 3G connections and the "Enable …" checkboxes, clicking any of them simply does nothing. Wifi networks can't be changed, 3G connections can't be brought up, networking can't be disabled. It's as if the indicator has lost partial connectivity to the network-manager proper. Other network-manager interfaces continue to work, both nmcli/nm-tool and "System Settings → Network" list all available connections and can bring them up. Looking through the network-manager bugs on launchpad at least #1012154 and #1000948 seem to be duplicates of this. (I'm commenting here since so far this is the most active one.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011073 Title: NetworkManager submenus unpopulated Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Submenus in Network Manager are sometimes unusable as they are not populated. This happens both with the list of available networks and with the VPN list. When the bug happens, it occurs for *both* the wireless submenu and the VPN menu. I know there are entries for those submenus as I can see them with other network UI mechanisms. The issue is intermittent. Expected: Dropping down the menu then hovering over the submenu trigger-point (example: "More networks") shows the additional expected entries (example: more wifi networks to choose from). Actual: Dropping down the menu and hovering over the submenu trigger displays a submenu but the submenu has nothing in it and is unusable. Ubuntu 12.04 network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 Apple Macbook Pro 8,1 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1011073/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
