I am seeing a very similar issue with the Dropbox indicator applet, and after much experimentation I believe both issues (network-manager and dropbox) are caused by a race condition within libindicate itself. I have opened a libindicate task for this bug, hopefully someone from that project will take a look.
** Also affects: libindicate (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965895 Title: After boot, NetworkManager indicator menu only shows four entries To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libindicate/+bug/965895/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs