<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:7pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 25 March 2009 21:03:45 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: > > Hi All; > > > > > > I ran a yum update tonite and after a reboot I no longer had a copy of > > the Network Manager in my system tray. Also I could no longer run the > > Network Manager (nm-applet) from the command line. It ran but still > > failed to show up in the system tray. > > nm_applet runs in the Notification Area. Did you lose your Notification > Area? I still had the volume control, the battery monitor, etc It seems I only lost the Network Manager (and possibly the Kmail nitification) > > I have 5 different applets running in mine, including Bluetooth Manager, > Power Manager, NetworkManager Applet, Weather Report, and Volumne > Applet. I'd notice if all 5 disappeared from my panel.... > > > Plus if I ran "ifup etho" I got an error that the network was 'down'. > > And finally I went to the network device control and it showed no > > devices. > > > > > > Fortunately I run an rsync backup before I do any updates. I ran an > > rsync restore of the following directories and everything is back to > > where it was before the update. > > > > > > bin > > boot > > etc > > lib > > lib64 > > lost+found > > opt > > root > > sbin > > selinux > > srv > > usr > > var > > > > > > > > Anyone have any thoughts per the Network Manager issue ? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjchome@rcn.com > cummings@kjchome.homeip.net > cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us > Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) </body></html>