Bug#971511: gnome-shell: Mobile Broadband icon doesn't show up anymore in system status area on 3.38 upgrade

Matteo F. Vescovi mfv at debian.org
Wed Sep 30 22:25:11 BST 2020


Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.38.0-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I mainly use 4G integrated mobile broadband for internet connection on
my ThinkPad laptop.

After the upgrade in unstable/sid of GNOME from v3.36 to v3.38, the
system status area doesn't show mobile broadband icon anymore even when
the connection is actually active. At its place, instead, wired
connection icon shows up but the popup menu doesn't contain an entry to
allow connection management, as shown in [1].

Former release of GNOME (as in [2]) showed the correct icon and the
popup menu was the right place to manage the connection.

Thanks for your efforts in fixing this annoying issue.

Cheers.


[1] https://people.debian.org/~mfv/gnome38.png
[2] https://people.debian.org/~mfv/emacs+magit.png

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.38.0-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.36.4-1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.55-3
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.66.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.38.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.6-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.66.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.34.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.23-1
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.36.1-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.22-5
ii  gir1.2-mutter-7                              3.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.26.2-1
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.30-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.46.2-1
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-29
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.50.0+dfsg-1
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.72.0-2
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.11-2
ii  gjs                                          1.66.0-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.38.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.38.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.38.0-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-pipewire                        0.3.12-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.38.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.36.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.31-3
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-4
ii  libecal-2.0-1                                3.36.4-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-24                        3.36.4-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.38.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.66.0-1
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.66.0-1
ii  libgles2                                     1.3.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.66.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.66.0-2
ii  libgnome-autoar-0-0                          0.2.4-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-19                        3.38.0-2
ii  libgraphene-1.0-0                            1.10.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.23-1
ii  libical3                                     3.0.8-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.6.0-1
ii  libmutter-7-0                                3.38.0-2
ii  libnm0                                       1.26.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.46.2-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.46.2-1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-29
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-29
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      13.0-5
ii  libpulse0                                    13.0-5
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.20.3-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  246.6-1
ii  libwayland-server0                           1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.12-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-2
ii  python3                                      3.8.2-3

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.9-1
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    10.1-5
ii  gdm3                  3.38.0-2
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.1-1
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-menus           3.36.0-1
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.38.0-1
ii  ibus                  1.5.22-5
ii  iio-sensor-proxy      3.0-1
ii  switcheroo-control    2.1-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-25

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   0.24.1-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  0.8.2-4

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-session-common   3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.38.0-2

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base   10.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring  3.36.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gnome-settings-daemon-common  3.38.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas     3.38.0-2
ii  libasound2                    1.2.3.2-1
ii  libc6                         2.31-3
ii  libcairo2                     1.16.0-4
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0            0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                  0.30-7
ii  libcolord2                    1.4.4-2
ii  libcups2                      2.3.3-3
ii  libfontconfig1                2.13.1-4.2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.38.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgeoclue-2-0                2.5.6-1
ii  libgeocode-glib0              3.26.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.66.0-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-19         3.38.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.24.23-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                233-1
ii  libgweather-3-16              3.36.1-1
ii  liblcms2-2                    2.9-4+b1
ii  libmm-glib0                   1.14.2-0.1
ii  libnm0                        1.26.2-1
ii  libnotify4                    0.7.9-1
ii  libnspr4                      2:4.28-1
ii  libnss3                       2:3.56-1
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]       246.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.46.2-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0           1.46.2-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.105-29
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0       13.0-5
ii  libpulse0                     13.0-5
ii  libupower-glib3               0.99.11-2
ii  libwacom2                     1.5-1
ii  libwayland-client0            1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.12-1
ii  libxext6                      2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxi6                        2:1.7.10-1

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  iio-sensor-proxy   3.0-1
ii  pulseaudio         13.0-5
ii  x11-xserver-utils  7.7+8

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
pn  usbguard  <none>

Versions of packages libgjs0g depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.31-3
ii  libcairo-gobject2      1.16.0-4
ii  libcairo2              1.16.0-4
ii  libffi7                3.3-4
ii  libgcc-s1              10.2.0-13
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1  1.66.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.66.0-2
ii  libmozjs-78-0          78.3.0-2
ii  libreadline8           8.0-4
ii  libstdc++6             10.2.0-13
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.12-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell is related to:
ii  libegl-mesa0 [libegl-vendor]  20.1.8-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri               20.1.8-1
ii  libglx-mesa0 [libglx-vendor]  20.1.8-1

-- no debconf information

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Matteo F. Vescovi || Debian Developer
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