I’m using KDE Plasma 6.6.1 with Fedora 43. Updated to 6.6.1 via Package management the last days and recoginized just today that in my opinion the network connection icon in the system tray changed.
Now I get displayed the greyed out network icon with an X meaning that I don’t have a network connection which is simply wrong as I’m sending from this computer.
I’m pretty sure this behaviour was not evident the version before. I have maybe some kind of special configuration. My main network interface taking the fixed IP address is a virtual bridge which the primary ethernet device is connected to.
So, my question: How do I find out, which state triggers the network icon to show a working network connectivity? Is this probably a bug which has to be reprted?
thank you for taking your time coming back to me with that.
To your questions:
Yes, the network devices are managed with NetworkManager: nmcli c s shows
br0 2cf27990-780b-41b0-a55d-455d9fd4611c bridge br0
bridge-slave-enp0s25 55012e42-7574-41d5-a5bd-1703abbeb7e7 ethernet enp0s25
lo 1b4aefa2-7060-466e-903b-45e9a80f569b loopback lo
(NetworkManager started by systemd)
ip link shows:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master br0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:4d:b1:2b:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enx00224db12b28
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:4d:b1:2b:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
ip addr:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master br0 state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:4d:b1:2b:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enx00224db12b28
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:4d:b1:2b:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet XXX.YYY.ZZZ.VVV/24 brd XXX.YYY.ZZZ.255 scope global noprefixroute br0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 blabla/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
After session restart / or complete reboot I get the same behaviour.
Interestingly the mouse over text shows me the tow connected connections. Im my case the connected ethernet device as part of the bridge and the connected bridge having the ip address.
So in my opinion there must be somewhere a logic which triggers the icon with the red X signaling a problem or the “you-are-connected” one.
Right, your special configuration is probably relevant.
I have Plasma 6.6.1 on Fedora 43, but with a really simple network setup (just a plain wired Ethernet connection), and I don’t get this problem - I see the same icon that I always did.
