Just thought I'd chime in and say that I've seen this bug on 11.04, 11.10 as well as now on 12.04. I am using VPN rather extensively and thus notice it quite often. VPN menu simply goes empty.
Where do I start troubleshooting? -- 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/779754 Title: NM status icon sometimes not clickable Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Sometimes lately after upgrade to Natty the network manager status icon is not possible to click on, nothing happens. When it happened now, it seems to be solved by restarting network-manager service ("sudo service network-manager restart"). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8.4~git.20110318t152954.9c4c9a0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog Date: Mon May 9 09:09:42 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) IpRoute: 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.130 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nb_NO:en LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-24 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/779754/+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
