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network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #985028
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 985028

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Mariano Draghi (chaghi) wrote :

It seems to be related to the network-manager-applet UI, and not the underlying service/infraestructure. Restarting network-manager service doesn't restore the VPN menu items.

And while the applet is "broken", you can still turn the VPN connections up and down with nmcli. In that case the applet will reflect the status in its icon (with/without the little padlock), but the VPN submenu will remain empty.

As mentioned before, killing and restarting nm-applet solves the issue... for a while.