Adding to the hue and cry. Encountered this after a reboot of 8.10.
$ uname -a Linux bigstory 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome network-manager-gnome: Installed: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto dsl-provider iface dsl-provider inet ppp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf provider dsl-provider auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual $ ifconfig | grep ^[[:alnum:]] eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:75:b9:db lo Link encap:Local Loopback ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol $ nm-applet ** (nm-applet:11935): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service. Message: 'Connection ":1.98" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file' (nm-applet:11935): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed $ sudo nm-applet [sudo] password for dle: ** (nm-applet:11936): WARNING **: No connections defined ** (nm-applet:11936): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Invalid connection: 'NMSettingConnection' / 'type' invalid: 3 ...I think the result of the sudo command might relate to my having configured my dsl connection (a pppoe one) with pppoeconf --- which I did because I didn't succeed with nm's gui tool. -- Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289466 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