It seems that the LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING messages are linked to two menu items that briefly appear and then immediately dissapear in the nm- applet menu, which have something to do with wimax and mobile broadband setup.
-- 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/928773 Title: nm-applet causing constant writes to disk (.xsession-errors) Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I tried Martin Pitt's fatrace [0] to find out about what I/O is going on when the system is idle. I let it ran for seven hours and the result showed, that ~60% of all 22,000 writes were caused by the nm- applet writing to ~/.xsession-errors. This is what repeats over and over again: LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position: assertion `g_list_find(priv->children, child) == NULL' failed LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position: assertion `g_list_find(priv->children, child) == NULL' failed LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position: assertion `g_list_find(priv->children, child) == NULL' failed LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position: assertion `g_list_find(priv->children, child) == NULL' failed LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position: assertion `g_list_find(priv->children, child) == NULL' failed LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent. LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent. Using up-to-date Precise with n-m-g 0.9.2.0+git.20120126t000800.5151959-0ubuntu1. [0]: http://www.piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file- access-events/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/928773/+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