nm-applet doesn't show any wifi connections after Enabling/Disabling Wifi

Bug #1571140 reported by Pinghao Qi
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm running the latest version of 16.04 with the latest applet version 1.1.93. I'm using a Thinkpad P50 laptop. On my system, the network applet works fine when the system is newly booted, then if I either enable and disable the wifi, or suspend the laptop and log back in, the icon in the status bar will change to the Ethernet connection icon, and if I click on the applet, it will only show "Wifi Networks" under the Ethernet rows. But if I open the actual Network Manager window, everything looks fine, it sees all the wifi hotspots in range, and the system is connected to wifi. Everything works fine except for the applet not showing any wifi connections what so ever.

To be more specific, the first several rows I currently have in the menu are:

Ethernet Network
disconnected
Wifi Networks
Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi Networks...

There's no way I can get it back to displaying properly again, without doing a reboot.

Tags: iso-testing
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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bford16 (bford16) wrote :

Functionality can be restored by doing killall nm-applet, then restarting nm-applet either from Alt+F2 or from Terminal. (Tested on Lenovo Flex 3-1120 laptop.

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

Please run this in terminal:

apport-collect 1571140

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1571140

tags: added: iso-testing
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RafaelNL (rafaelnl) wrote :

I have the exact same problem.

Tried to use apport-collect but apparently that's only possible for the OP

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