Comment 71 for bug 1297849

I may be in the same situation as Trafex since none of the solutions posted here have worked for me. Maybe we have a slightly different issue. I tried the steps described by Pavel in #70. I was not able to proceed past step 2, as the nm-applet menu never reappeared after I killed it. I had to log out and log back in to get it back. Here are the contents of nmapplet.log - pasting it directly here since it was very short:

(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: applet now removed from the notification area
(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: gnome-shell is not running, registering secret agent
(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0
(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: foo_client_state_changed_cb
nm-applet-Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: status_icon_size_changed_cb(): status icon size 16 requested

At this point I had waited a few minutes and the applet never came back, so I ctrl-c'd to stop the process, and then logged out and logged back in. When I logged back in I found a bit more had been added to the log:

nm-applet-Message: PID 0 (we are 6279) sent signal 2, shutting down...
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
nm-applet-Message: PID 6279 (we are 6279) sent signal 15, shutting down...
(nm-applet:6279): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 87 was not found when attempting to remove it
(nm-applet:6279): nm-applet-DEBUG: destroying secret agent

That's where it stopped. I have attached the full log to this post.

In the meantime, I have been getting on my vpn by connecting and disconnecting via the terminal. It seems to work fine for me when I do it via the terminal, so I figured the problem was with the applet.