On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:30:42PM -0000, Stephan Frank wrote: > Alexander Sack wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:55:47AM -0000, Stephan Frank wrote: > >> I think I can shed some light on the subject. I have a machine that was > >> updated yesterday from hardy to intrepid (i386). After the update I was > >> seeing the same symptoms as described above (no nm-applet icon in the > >> notification area, though Networkmanager and nm-applet were running, > >> nothing in /var/crash). > >> > >> I ignored the problem for a while though had a look into my > >> /var/log/syslog for other reasons and noted a message about the driver > >> for my wlan stick (rt73usb) not being able to find the firmware. After > >> installing the linux-firmware package and rebooting the nm-applet > >> appeared as usual. > >> > >> Apparently there is a missing dependency that leads to the linux- > >> firmware package getting dropped during the update? At least in appears > >> that the resulting faulty behaviour though seems to lead to the weird > >> behaviour of nm-applet. > >> > > > > Can you reproduce this problem when removing that firmware again? > > Ah, a good question, sorry I didn't think of that myself. And > unfortunately, no, removing the firmware though does lead to the same > syslog entry, the nm-applet icon is displayed and indicating that the > network is down. > > (And I'd like to add that another machine with almost the same > configuration which I upgraded to Intrepid sometime last week did not > expose this problem but also did not forget the firmware package during > the upgrade, so the initial situation did not occur anyway) >
well. if the applet is visible, nm hasnt crashed. the other issue is unrelated. - Alexander -- Network Manager fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
