Given comment #13, this looks very much like a network-manager problem, not a gnome-panel problem; unduping...
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 439448 notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour -- Network manager icon does not appear in notification panel at startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
