Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager
This is similar to bug #185209 in that I've seen this happen on this box and fixed it by deleting some of the entries in ~/.gnome2. When I'm at home my computer works just fine on my WiFi access. My access is a WPA 802.11G point. When at work I tried connecting to a WPA2 network and a WEP network and both crashed nm-applet or at least I assume that it was nm-applet that was crashing but it seemed to take gnome-panel with it and I think nautilus as well as I was unable to click on icons on the desktop. I was still spin the desktop and all that fun stuff using compiz though. I also noted this same problem when connecting to a wired network at the same location. After this rebooting would still present me with a gnome- applet that was dead. However my system monitor applet seemed to never die. Just the Applications/Places/System and all of the launcher icons. Things seemed to die after clicking on an icon but it was always the first icon after successful connection to an "other" network. Not sure why it works so well here at home but its a NO GO at work. Deleting the .gnome2 folder in my home was the only way to get the panel back after causing one of these crashes. This is under 8.04 Beta and the nm-applet I'm running is 0.6.6. This install of 8.04 was an upgrade from Gutsy and the gutsy install worked perfectly! The network card is an ipw2200. It was suggested that I run nm-applet in a terminal and look at what it says when this happens.. So I did this and posted another post that read: <BEGIN CUT FROM TERMINAL> ** Message: <info> Forcing device '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1' ** (nm-applet:9168): CRITICAL **: nm_gconf_wso_set_key: assertion `key != NULL' failed ** (nm-applet:9168): WARNING **: <WARN> real_write_secrets_cb(): Error saving secret for wireless network '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in keyring: 5 <END CUT FROM TERMINAL> At this point in time clicking any of the launcher applets in the gnome panel (such as evolution or firefox) causes the system to pretty much go down. After that hovering over a panel icon will not allow it to illuminate. Hovering over the desktop icons does cause them to illuminate still (but not always) and they won't open. However Compiz still seems to be very alive and pidgin seems to be working just fine and is actually connected to the net. Connecting from somewhere else makes pidgin disconnect on the laptop and show all the messages that it should. After this in order to reboot I have to do a ctrl+alt+F1 and then reboot from there... Whoa.. Ok take that back.. The icons on the desktop DO open but they take FOREVER! Like minutes. I just opened up a folder and a few minutes later it opened the folder in nautilus then immediately turned grey. Its probably just still operating very slowly... Hitting Ctrl+c in the terminal that was running nm-applet doesn't seem to bring it back. I have a thread where I've been posting anything new that happens related to this bug here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4634642#post4634642 Now that I have this as well I'll start posting any updates to here. ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Connecting to other networks causes gnome-panel to hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211471 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
