I can confirm the symptoms and the workaround. I'm running and up-to- date 12.04.
I don't know if this is relevant: I frequently change network types, switching between static ethernet, dhcp ethernet, dhcp wifi on multiple networks, and ip over bluetooth. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/825897 Title: nm-applet becomes unresponsive, requiring a restart Status in Network Manager GNOME Applet: New Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After nm-applet has been running for a while (overnight) it becomes unresponsive: - unable to uncheck "Enable Wireless" - doesn't list the numerous additional networks under "More Networks" - doesn't find new networks This behavior persists until the applet is restarted via something like: killall nm-applet; sleep 1; nohup nm-applet & This problem has been consistently present since 11.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager-applet/+bug/825897/+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
