More info... daemon.log shows this info when nm-applet crashes
Aug 28 16:10:12 mranderson-15u NetworkManager: (eth1): device state
change: 8 -> 3
Aug 28 16:10:12 mranderson-15u NetworkManager: (eth1): deactivating
device (reason: 38).
Aug 28 16:10:12 mranderson-15u NetworkManager: e
Sorry to add new bugs, but nm-applet started to vanish suddenly, and
before it worked great with no problems.
Everytime I restart nm-applet with "nm-applet --sm-disable", after a few
minutes it vanishes again.
I checked and NetworkManager is running when nm-applet crashes.
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