Public bug reported: Today's Ubuntu 12.04 update has diabled Network Manager's "Edit Connections" and "VPN Connections / Configure VPN". They are both greyed out. I had one machine that had that problem today, and by manually updating another laptop and restarting nm-applet, the laptop went from working to greyed out too.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-77.112-generic-pae 3.2.66 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-77-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Feb 26 17:03:07 2015 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) IpRoute: default via 172.20.1.130 dev wlan1 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan1 scope link metric 1000 172.20.1.0/24 dev wlan1 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.1.29 metric 2 MarkForUpload: True NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan1 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth1 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled ** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426138 Title: Recent 12.04 update disables "Edit Connections" and VPNs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1426138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs