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) Sorry, seems like it's some nasty to track and reproduce buglet... Stephan -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
