SUMMARY If NetworkManager crashes, "Networks" disappears from the bottom-right taskbar (task manager) and should only be a button click to restart. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Find the "Networks" icon in the bottom-right taskbar (task manager). 2. To reproduces what happened when it randomly crashed on me: $ sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager OBSERVED RESULT 3. Notice "Networks" has completely disappeared after a crash. EXPECTED RESULT 4. NetworkManager tries to automatically recover itself from this errored state. 5. If NetworkManager cannot automatically recover, still display "Networks" in the taskbar (with an alert symbol/color overlay of some kind) but have it only inform the user of NetworkManager's Status/Error and have a single button that runs: $ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager 6. This restart fixed my initial issue and the step 2. reproduction of the issue. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Bazzite 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.7-300.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13980HX Memory: 15.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Graphics Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product Name: Vivobook_ASUSLaptop K6604JI_K6604JI System Version: 1.0
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796
Removing the line > "X-Plasma-DBusActivationService": "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", from the metadata is sufficient to make the tray icon stop disappearing when Networkmanager is disabled or crashed. The UI in the popup is already OK in this case, but could perhaps use some sprucing up to offer a more detailed message.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/439
Git commit eab27656bbd73b61e2d22a8255694123fb128ca7 by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/06/2025 at 22:28. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applet: handle some more states 1. Looking for Wi-Fi networks but haven't found any yet 2. NetworkManager isn't running Related: bug 462454 FIXED-IN: 6.5.0 | Looking for networks | NetworkManager not running | | -------------------- | -------------------------- | |  |  | @teams/usability M +12 -3 applet/contents/ui/ConnectionListPage.qml M +2 -1 applet/contents/ui/Toolbar.qml M +0 -1 applet/metadata.json M +1 -1 libs/networkstatus.cpp M +1 -2 libs/networkstatus.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/commit/eab27656bbd73b61e2d22a8255694123fb128ca7