Fault on my side, which nm-applet actually revealed that I had one nm- applet lurking in /usr/local/bin
removing it solved the problem. thanx, feel free to close this as INVALID -- nm-applet in edgy fails to start after removing libglib-1-2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/67135 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
