After installing Ubuntu under VirtualBox the nm-applet is missing.

I already tried to restart the applet but nothing has happened. Any suggestions?

$ kill nm-applet 

bash: kill: nm-applet: arguments must be process or job IDs 

$ kill 2649 

$ sudo nm-applet 





** (nm-applet:2740): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files 

** Message: applet now removed from the notification area 



** (nm-applet:2740): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files 

** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon 



(nm-applet:2740): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion `dest_width > 0' failed 

** Message: Starting applet secret agent because GNOME Shell disappeared 



** (nm-applet:2740): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files

Thanks for the suggestions.

I already removed the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages and reinstalled. Additionally I installed the package network-manager-dpg but the terminal apparently doesn't know the package network-manager. Synaptic tells me that both network-manager and network-manager-gnome are installed correctly.

There's just a problem with network-manager-dbg which I successfully reinstalled using the terminal but the error is still there. I can't upgrade the broken package via Internet since the connection doesn't work without the network-manager.

$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/network-manager-dbg_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb 

(Reading database ... 197394 files and directories currently installed.) 

Preparing to replace network-manager-dbg 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 (using .../network-manager-dbg_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... 

Unpacking replacement network-manager-dbg ... 

Setting up network-manager-dbg (0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) ... 

$ sudo service Network-manager start 

Network-manager: unrecognized service 

$ >



$ sudo service network-manager start 

[sudo] password for jonas: 

network-manager start/running, process 2471 

$ nm-applet 



** (nm-applet:2517): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files 

** Message: applet now removed from the notification area 



** (nm-applet:2517): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files 

** Message: Starting applet secret agent because GNOME Shell disappeared 



** (nm-applet:2517): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files 

^C** Message: PID 0 (we are 2517) sent signal 2, shutting down... >