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pst007x
Asked: 2011-01-28 15:55:05 +0800 CST

Network Manager Applet menu freezes and does not respond

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Since the latest update in Ubuntu 10.10, the nm-applet has started doing some strange things. I boot up the PC, all is fine, internet works, etc... but after a period of time, approx and hour, the nm-applet menu in the Gnome panel fails to respond. when I click on the icon, the menu appears, all looks well, but when I select any option, eg DISCONNECT, nothing happens. Even the VPN sub menu disappears (no triangle to select the menu.) However I do not lose the network connection...

If I Run this script:

killall nm-applet

/etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart

nm-applet

all returns as normal, for a while... weird?

i tried uninstall/reinstall... I even reinstalled Ubuntu, but once the latest updates are applied this issues arises...

Any help?

network-manager

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Certain sources (notably Elementary Desktop's PPA) have a version of network-manager-gnome which is newer than the one in the canonical maverick repository. A fix has been issued for Natty, but is not in the Maverick repos yet. So Ubuntu sees the newer version in elementary-desktop, uses that instead of the canonical one and, hence, the bug.

    The solution is to roll back the version of network-manager-gnome to the 0.8.1+git.20100809t190028.290dc70-0ubuntu3 from 0.8.2+git.20101123t161608.f143e76-0ubuntu1

    This can be done from synaptic by searching for network-manager-gnome and then clicking 'force version' in the package menu and selecting the 0.8.1 version.

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  2. No need to force it anymore, that have taken 0.82 out. So just downgrade, no need to lock.

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