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

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