debian-user:
I have a Dell Latitude E6520:
2024-04-14 04:28:39 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.9
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-04-14 04:34:40 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ dpkg-query -l xfce4 network-manager network-manager-gnome
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================-================-============-=========================================================
ii network-manager 1.30.6-1+deb11u1 amd64 network
management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
ii network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3 amd64 network
management framework (GNOME frontend)
ii xfce4 4.16 all Meta-package for
the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment
I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years.
Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!).
But, the machine is connected to my LAN:
2024-04-14 05:24:10 root@laalaa ~
# ifconfig wlp3s0
wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.REDACTED netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.REDACTED
inet6 REDACTED prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether REDACTED txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 5786 bytes 2830592 (2.6 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 119 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 3897 bytes 518278 (506.1 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Looking in the the Xfce panel Application Menu, I am unable to find
Network Manager.
Looking at the Debian WIKI page "NetworkManager":
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager
It looks like the Network Manager daemon is running:
2024-04-14 04:32:49 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ ps -A | grep -i network
828 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
nm-applet(1) looks like the program I want (?). Attempting to start it
via a terminal has no effect:
2024-04-14 04:40:25 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ which nm-applet
/usr/bin/nm-applet
2024-04-14 05:27:05 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ nm-applet
2024-04-14 05:27:08 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$
RTFM nm-applet(1), it seems the desktop session manager is failing to
start nm-applet(1) (?):
2024-04-14 04:58:49 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ man nm-applet | cat
...
DESCRIPTION
nm-applet is a GTK-based GUI applet to monitor network status
and devices and to start and stop network connections managed
by NetworkManager. nm-applet is normally started at login by
the desktop session manager and does not need to be run manu-
ally. nm-applet conforms to the XDG System Tray specification
and requires that the desktop environment provide a System Tray
implementation in which the applet will be embedded.
I am unable to find relevant error messages under /var/log.
The network Connection Editor can be run via a terminal:
2024-04-14 04:55:29 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ which nm-connection-editor
/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
2024-04-14 04:55:38 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ nm-connection-editor
Does anyone know why the Network Manager Xfce panel applet is missing,
how to get it back, and/or how to start it some other way?
David
