Gareth, I'm not convinced this is the same issue, as killing off gnome-keyring should have made the icon appear. Unfortunately, as there is no timestamp in .xsession-errors, it's not possible to know in which order the above three messages showed up.
Could you please tell me what was the original session type you were in before switching to gnome-session-fallback? The messages you saw indicate nm-applet was switching to using GtkStatusIcons, which just shouldn't happen unless you're in a session type that doesn't support indicators (e.g. Xubuntu in the XFCE session, without the indicator widget). ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/839883 Title: no network icon after upgrade to oneiric Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: after upgrading to oneiric, I have no network icon in my indicator area anymore. network-manager is running and working (both wired and wireless), but I can't select networks etc. without an indicator applet/icon/whatever. I tried killing and restarting nm-applet, but it simply runs with no output. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Fri Sep 2 16:55:23 2011 IpRoute: default via 10.0.1.1 dev eth0 proto static 10.0.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.1.136 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (0 days ago) WpaSupplicantLog: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/839883/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp