Comment 72 for bug 1308348

Had it happen in Mint 17 MATE. Three users and gave each a separate ethernet static IP address to allow access control of each assigned static IP address at the router level instead of within linux. Shortly after the nm-applet icon failed to appear in panel. I could see the panel jump a bit near where it's supposed to be if nm-applet command was run in terminal, but failed to show it. Some have speculated it's running but just not showing the icon at that point. I got it back by stopping the networking, but then after starting again, I had to reset that current user's ethernet connection, again.

sudo service network-manager stop; sudo service network-manager start;