update broke NetworkManager

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:03 -0400, 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 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....
> 
> I have a friend who is now offline because of this update. I'm trying to
> help him roll back the change. No rsync backup in this case...
> 
> Ideas?

If his Notification Area has disappeared from his panel, add it back in. 
  Then NetworkManager Applet will have someplace to run.  If the problem 
is something else, then, I'm sorry, I can't help.

> Cheers,
> 
> Chris

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