i experimented futher and found that all the previous user previlages to my default login are vanished and it is not allowing me do anything. i can not access even my windows partition. this happened after the last updates on 3rd april to my ubuntu 14.04
-- 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/1302386 Title: NM-APPLET does not allow to connect to wifi Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: after updates today in 14.04 I reboot the system. Then I tried connected to local wifi network It gave an error saying you are not authorised to use the applet. edit connection is not enabled. all dial up / mobile network configured previously are not shown. network tab in system setting is also not allowing to connect to any network. mobile network creation also failed saying user not allowed to access this applet. tried to run nm-applet as super user but it did not work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1302386/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp