Ubuntu
network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #289466
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 289466

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Cosmin L (lcosmin) wrote : Re: Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces

This happens for me too:

root@user-desktop:~# 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
     0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1~nm1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages

root@user-desktop:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

root@user-desktop:~# ps axu | grep Networ | grep -v grep
root 5765 0.0 0.0 6408 2240 ? Ss 23:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
root 5775 0.0 0.1 7696 3516 ? S 23:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --config /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

The network manager process is running, but no applet.

# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart makes the applet appear.