The applet stops updating randomly and never starts updating again until "Apply" is clicked from the Properties dialog. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Only observed in the following environment: 1. Vertical panel 2. Computer gets hibernated at least once a day 3. NetworkManager active 4. An USB modem on interface ppp0 with usb_modeswitch connected all the time/replugged occasionally 5. USB RNDIS network gadget + modem (actually phone) attached occasionally 6. Occasionally changing Docker and Virt-Manager interfaces Actual Results: Updates cease sometimes Expected Results: Network graph never stops updating
This has nothing to do with the System Load Viewer plasmoid. Are you sure you assigned this to the correct component?
No, I am not sure. It's really difficult to find the right component on the bug tracker. If I misassigned, please assign to the correct component. The Network applet in question is the one that is called Network Monitor, and can be placed on panels. I don't know if the bug is in the widget itself or in the data provider, but judging by the amount of other bugs in the applet that I'm seeing, my guess is that it's the culprit.
Let's bring this back up and connect it to some older wishlist item... https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291546 "Network monitor should (optionally) show only connected devices" was closed recently as it was filed for KDE4. This is still an, well, issue with KDE5, and I think it is connected to this bug. Due to my special snowflake WiFi card that needs attention after every sleep->wakeup cycle, the Network Monitor applet thingy hangs a lot. I need to click right on the applet, Configure Network Monitor, select the interface again (this is also bugged as sometimes it does not show up at first, then gets refreshed upon hitting Apply, and then works as expected), and then the monitor resets and does its thing. If we could do a periodic check which interface is available and up, there could be an automatic start/stop of newly active/inactive interfaces. This would also resolve this bug, which to me, sounds closely related. I'm using traditional horizontal panel layout, so I doubt this is a problem that is caused by the rotation of the entire panel. kf5-config --version Qt: 5.9.5 KDE Frameworks: 5.47.0 kf5-config: 1.0
Is this still an issue or relevant with the new System Monitor applet in Plasma 5.19 and beyond?
Can't tell, as I'm still using plasmashell --version plasmashell 5.12.9 with Kubuntu 18.04.5. Maybe someone else can check on a newer install. I will probably update early December when reaching 256 days of uptime... My current Netspeed Widget does not have an update issue, but I'd still like to see newly added interfaces in the task bar that also vanish when physically removed. Maybe the System Monitor thing does that already.
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ALL networking applets have stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 with the following versions kf5-config --version Qt: 5.12.8 KDE Frameworks: 5.68.0 kf5-config: 1.0 plasmashell --version plasmashell 5.18.5 I'll see what an upgrade to 5.19 can do, if that doesn't break my entire installation...
If there's a supported way to upgrade 20.04 LTS to KDE 5.19, I'm happy to help.
I'm closing this report out as the original issue from 2016 is likely no longer present. KDE is a fast moving project. Many code changes and bug fixes have been merged since this was opened. For any bugs that are still being encountered, please open a new report. Thanks.