I eliminated this problem as Jase says above in comment #6. I was using the gnome "Shut Down" applet beside my notification area. I swapped this to the "Indicator Applet Session" and I have not seen the problem since. Those 2 applets give similar functionality.
Note maintainers, as I said above in comment #8. I was using exactly the same applets on my slower laptop but never saw the problem there. So I contend this is a timing/speed related problem. -- The nm-applet icon is missing or the sound icon is duplicated and the second one is dead https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482684 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs