Description of problem: Lack of network panel gadget, annoying since this is my usual route to bringing up the VPN firs thing in the morning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.9.10.2-2.fc21 xfce4-panel-4.10.1-6.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: Same after a reboot Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login 2. Observe panel lacking network gadget 3. Actual results: No gadget Expected results: Gadget present and usable Additional info: The usual "yum update" done last night
Not present in the list of possibles to add, either
Please check: Do you have the tray plugin ("Notification Area") as an item in one of your panels instances? http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/systray
Yes; it's marked as "(external)" and has internal name "systray-6".
is the 'nm-applet' process running? If you do a 'systemctl restart NetworkManager' does it appear. If not, can you look through 'journalctl -u NetworkManager -b -l' and see if there's any errors related to nm-applet? Also, what was upgraded in your yum-update? NetworkManager ?
> is the 'nm-applet' process running? - Yes > If you do a 'systemctl restart NetworkManager' does it appear. - No > If not, can you look through 'journalctl -u NetworkManager -b -l' and see if > there's any errors related to nm-applet? - None mentioning nm-applet. One warning for a missing cert for EAP. Also, what was upgraded in your yum-update? NetworkManager ? kernel, selinux-policy I don't see mention of an NM update in var/log/messages
Anything in 'journalctl --user -b -l' about nm-applet? Do you see other items in your system tray? If you boot the previous kernel does it start working?
> Anything in 'journalctl --user -b -l' about nm-applet? - No > Do you see other items in your system tray? - Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with that term. The panel has other items in the relevant region: a power-manager, (right now, not always present) a backup-runner, a clock. > If you boot the previous kernel does it start working? - No
(In reply to Jeremy Harris from comment #7) > > Do you see other items in your system tray? > - Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with that term. The panel has other items in > the relevant region: a power-manager, (right now, not always present) > a backup-runner, a clock. Xfce has a panel plugin that makes a 'system tray' in a panel. This is where various applications can show little status icons or the like. nm-applet is one of these, hexchat has one, keepassx, firewall-config, etc. The systray interface is somewhat generic and works with many desktops. (so, they don't need to write plugins for N things, they can just provide a systray icon). Can you try removing your system tray from the panel (it's called "notification area" I think). Then re-adding it? If that doesn't help, can you make a new fresh user, login as that user and see if it's working there? That would point us to a per user config vs a system wide issue.
Re-addding the notification area does result in the reappearance of the NM gadget. Thanks - my immediate issue is fixed now, though you may want to keep this bug open for it going away in the first place? I'll leave that up to you.
Yeah, I have not seen any other reports, but lets keep it open for a bit and see if anymore appear...
Although not quite sure how CentOS 7 is using NetworkManger, but it's running somehow in the background: I tried to newly add the notification area into my xfce4-panel instance, it appears empty with a working network connection. So this seems to be reproducible in epel7-testing, too.
Hi! I can confirm Jeremys problem with the appearance of the applet in the notifications area. Removing and readding the notification area doesn't work for me. Neither does xfce-panel -r. Cheers, flo
bizzare. ok. Can those of you seeing this please provide the exact list of packages you updated when it happened? You should be able to get those from /var/log/yum.log or /var/log/dnf.log or 'rpm -qa --last'
Created attachment 1010359 [details] rpm -qa --last (CentOS 7.1) Done in my CentOS 7 developer vm I guess this is the upgrade to 7.1 incl. new NetworkManager packages
Created attachment 1010363 [details] rpm -qa --last (f21)
I am wondering if this is a gtk issue ... Just as mentioned here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208297
(In reply to Mukundan Ragavan from comment #16) > I am wondering if this is a gtk issue ... > I meant to write gtk3 (seen in both recent updates, albeit very different versions?)
I confirm this here. It is, however, not 100% deterministic. I had it the first time when recovering from suspend. A reboot did not help. A second reboot did. I should maybe try the older kernel version, but I cannot reboot at the moment. These are the updates between working and non-working perl-Text-ParseWords-3.30-1.fc21.noarch kernel-devel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.066-2.fc21.x86_64 freexl-1.0.1-1.fc21.x86_64 sip-4.16.6-1.fc21.x86_64 python3-sip-4.16.6-1.fc21.x86_64 kernel-headers-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 gtk3-3.14.10-1.fc21.x86_64 kernel-debug-devel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 selinux-policy-doc-3.13.1-105.9.fc21.noarch kernel-modules-extra-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 kernel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 selinux-policy-sandbox-3.13.1-105.9.fc21.noarch libreoffice-pyuno-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-emailmerge-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-pdfimport-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-impress-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-graphicfilter-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-draw-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-math-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-calc-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-base-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-writer-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-core-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.noarch autocorr-en-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.noarch selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-105.9.fc21.noarch selinux-policy-3.13.1-105.9.fc21.noarch kernel-modules-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 kernel-core-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 libreoffice-ure-4.3.6.2-6.fc21.x86_64 Not too many candidates...
sorry, the symbol never showed up since then.
(In reply to schlaffi from comment #18) … > gtk3-3.14.10-1.fc21.x86_64 … > Not too many candidates... When we do not expect the kernel or libreoffice or perl/python libraries to have anything to do with this issue, so there's not much left except gtk3 and maybe selinux …
I'm the one that filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208297 and I have a strong feeling this is the same issue. There's been an issue with gtk3 and notifications in the past, see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731612 Have a feeling it might be some kind of regression.
And, bad news, today's boot has it missing. Remove/add the notification area works.
ok, lets try and isolate if it's really gtk3 related. ;) Can folks seeing this: * 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gtk3' and this will take you to 3.14.11 (which is newer than the .10 everyone here seems to have). Does the problem persist with this version? * Download the previous version (3.14.9) from: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=615257 and use 'yum downgrade' on the rpms you have installed to downgrade back to 3.14.9. Does the problem persist with this version? Also, can folks seeing this check their ~/.xsession-errors file (if using lightdm or the like) and/or journalctl --user (if using gdm) output for any mentions of nm-applet? Thanks.
Confirmed gtk3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated: gtk3.x86_64 0:3.14.11-1.fc21 Dependency Updated: gtk3-immodule-xim.x86_64 0:3.14.11-1.fc21 Complete! cvandesande@t430 ~ $ killall nm-applet cvandesande@t430 ~ $ nm-applet *Does not appear* cvandesande@t430 ~ $ xfce4-panel -r *appears* --------------------------------------------------------------------- Removed: gtk3.x86_64 0:3.14.11-1.fc21 gtk3-immodule-xim.x86_64 0:3.14.11-1.fc21 Installed: gtk3.x86_64 0:3.14.9-1.fc21 gtk3-immodule-xim.x86_64 0:3.14.9-1.fc21 Complete! cvandesande@t430 ~ $ killall nm-applet cvandesande@t430 ~ $ nm-applet *appears* panel reload not needed.
Using lightdm, in .xsession-errors I'm seeing (xfwm4:1979): xfwm4-WARNING **: Cannot get window attributes for window (0x5400675) Whenever I run nm-applet
Lets move this over to gtk3 and see if they can come up with something here.
Apologies for being behind on this. Confirm the update where this appeared brought in gtk3-3.14.10-1.fc21.x86_64; will try 3.14.11
I have tried with F21 XFCE live ISO. nm-applet icon showed with the default gtk3-3.14.5-1, but after updating to gtk3-3.14.10-1, killing nm-applet and running it doesn't show its icon (nm-applet runs, though). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1208183 ***