Clicking menu items on network indicator sometimes does nothing

Bug #1076999 reported by Jonathan Lange
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Sometimes, I am unable to switch networks or disconnect from a network using network indicator. Clicking items in the pull down menu elicits no visible response.

At other times, this works fine. I don't know what makes it work at some times and not others.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 9 13:39:16 2012
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-01 (253 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.254 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.120 metric 9
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-19 (82 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.6.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Andy Buckley (andy-insectnation) wrote :

I've found that an explicit restart of nm-applet (with pkill and then just running nm-applet& -- maybe there's a better way) brings the applet back to a useable state. Restarting the network-manager infrastructure, on the other hand, does not seem to fully refresh the applet.

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