[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#646017: network-manager-gnome: nm-applet will not appear for second logged in user

[Philip Wyett]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: important

network-manager-gnome: nm-applet will not appear for second logged in user

Debian 6.0.3 (squeeze)

3g connection 3 UK

Scenario:

I was logged building an app with pbuilder.

I was not connected to the net via 3g dongle.

Did switch user to allow my Mrs log in.

She logged in and nm-applet did not appear.

nm-applet running in my account so would not appear in hers to allow her to
connect to the net.

This is a bad usability bug.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11           1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2             2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme   2.30.3-2              GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.30.0-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.8.10-6              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0        1:2.6.4-1             library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-2              GNOME Bluetooth tools - support li
ii  libgnome-keyring0  2.30.1-1              GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1    0.8.1-6+squeeze1      network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2        0.8.1-6+squeeze1      network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1        0.8.1-6+squeeze1      network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnot 0.5.0-2               sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-1+squeeze2     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  network-manager    0.8.1-6+squeeze1      network management framework daemo
ii  policykit-1-gnome  0.96-3                GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth               2.30.0-2   GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.30.3-5   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-inf 20101106-1 database of mobile broadband servi
ii  notification-daemon           0.5.0-2    daemon to displays passive pop-up 

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome    <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    <none>     (no description available)

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