Comment 21 for bug 1308348

I did a clean install of Lubuntu 14.04 i386, and it affects me as well.

Starting nm-applet works. Using sudo is not good, ~/.dbus and ~/.cache can become owned by root.

However, this may be have something to do with wireless problems during the install. In my first install attempt I selected "connect to wireless later" and this gave a Lubuntu with no wireless capability which resisted all my attempts to set it up. It did not admit to the existence of wireless connections. I could "ifconfig wlan0 up" but the DE had nothing. Several attempts selecting the wireless AP and typing the password failed, the next "preparing to install" screen would have an x by the connected to internet line. The attempt that succeeded paused for 10 minutes after clicking connect, and I was prompted for the wireless password several times during the install. A Lubuntu 13.10 install on the same hardware (a USB Realtek 8188) had rock solid wireless, completely painless.