On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:25 +0900, Jacobs Shannon wrote: > I hope this is a trivial and non-problematic thing, but I've been > watching for a report here and haven't spotted anything. > > Since Ubuntu 10.04 was released, I've done a number of upgrades and > installations, and several times I've seen it stop during the > installation with a message about the nm applet being unable to find > some required resources. I've just been skipping over it without > problems, either it's spurious or self-repairing, but I'm still > wondering.
So what's happening here is that the applet uses icons with certain names. On upgrade, sometimes these names change. When the icon files are changed underneath the applet this triggers (via GTK+) a theme change so that the applet can start using the new icon. But in this case, since the name has changed, the old icon may no longer be on disk, and the applet can't find the icons it needs to display. This is one reason why many Windows updates wait until shutdown, or why Firefox often stops working reliably if you update it while running it. In the end, it's harmless, since when you log out and log back in again, the new applet is running and it has all the resources it needs when it starts again (since you just installed the correct set of icons). Recent fixes to the applet have mitigated this and future upgrades shouldn't trigger that warning any more, though you may see some odd icons until you log out and back in. It was just changed to stop throwing up the stupid dialog and just fall back to a know-good icon name when it couldn't find what it was looking for. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
