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I recently dist-upgrade my debian lenny to squeeze. Now the nm-applet refuses to show up. I can access both wired and wireless networks (i.e. it works), but I never get an icon (and hence I cannot select wireless networks). If I run it from command line, I never get the prompt back. A few lines from strace look like that:
When I was playing with one of the Ubuntu netbook OS's I had similar problems with network manager, it happened after almost every update. The only thing I could do that worked was to reinstall network manager. Sometimes I had to remove all the nm packages and install wicd instead. I know Debian doesn't have the same issues as Ubuntu, but it's relatively quick and easy to try. Just back up your configuration files for the networks if you have any special settings.
thanks for the answer. I discovered that some of my devices were wrong as well, so I opted for full upgrade.
However, the issue might have been that the new nm-applet requires gnome-setting-daemon to be running. Namely, I was using nm-applet on trayer with fvwm and just a few single gnome applications, but not gnome-settings-daemon. So, even after the upgrade I had to start that one.
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