NetworkManager advisories mangled on display

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ccurley@dragon:~$ pre network-manager
network-manager-0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1--i386
network-manager-gnome-0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1--i386
ccurley@dragon:~$ lsb_release -rc
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
ccurley@dragon:~$ pre radeon
libdrm-radeon1-2.4.14-1ubuntu1--i386
radeontool-1.5+git76606164-0ubuntu2--i386
xserver-xorg-video-radeon-1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1--i386
ccurley@dragon:~$
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First off, this may not be a network manager (NM) issue at all. It may be related to the graphics code, but I have no idea where to look to identify it.

I just upgraded my laptop (Lenovo R51, http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html for details) from Jaunty to Karmic. Normally when NM connects and disconnects, it tosses out a black window with no decorations indicating what's going on: "connecting to network foo", e.g. However, these are now showing up as red rectangles with black horizontal and vertical lines in them (see attached screen capture; the red butte in the background appears normal). This does not appear to affect the operation of NM.

For the purposes of NM, this is merely obnoxious. But it could have nasty implications for other applications.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Oct 31 19:04:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 2
 192.168.122.0/24 via 192.168.1.7 dev eth1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.31 dev eth1 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RfKill:

SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2165): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2165): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2187): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2205): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed