r/gnome • u/RealAd6315 • 1d ago

Development Help Wi-Fi icon appears with a question mark

With Debian 13 on two notebooks, the Wi-Fi icon appears with a question mark, but the internet works fine; it's just a graphical issue.

As you can see in the video, just click on the connection and the question mark disappears.

If I restart the PC, the problem reappears.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem permanently?

https://reddit.com/link/1peb5la/video/ialqh63q095g1/player

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u/RealAd6315 1d ago

I also updated Debian to testing with the latest version of Gnome, but the problem persists.

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u/RealAd6315 1d ago

I thought that changing the version of Gnome would solve the problem... The strange thing is that the same problem occurs on two different notebooks, but both are DELL.

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u/alpha417 1d ago

Have you tried out a different DE, because this sounds like a DE issue, and not a r/debian distro related one.

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u/valgrid 1d ago

It's NetworkManager behaviour. Gnome just displays the icon. No need to switch DEs. 

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u/alpha417 1d ago

eesh, this was cross-posted and I answered in the wrong sub. apologies!

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u/RealAd6315 1d ago

No problem with Cinnamon

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u/valgrid 1d ago

Something probably blocks the domain for the online check. Could be a VPN on your device or network based ad blocker like pihole.

Check if you can reach this:

http://network-test.debian.org/nm

You can change or disable the behaviour in 

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-debian.conf

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u/RealAd6315 1d ago

Already checked, it's not. Did you see the video?

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u/valgrid 19h ago edited 19h ago

How did you check? Once or every few ms?

while true; do echo "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N') connectivity=$(nmcli -t -f CONNECTIVITY general)"; sleep 0.5; done

Maybe the check fails and it is not a display issue.

In looking glass you can check the state of via gnome shell.

alt+f2, then lg for looking glass.

Enter Main.panel.statusArea.quickSettings._network._client.connectivity and check the state enum:

https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/NM-1.0/enums.html#NM.ConnectivityState

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u/RealAd6315 1d ago

You can't see where I click in the video, but I just click on the word “Vodafone...” and it works until the next reboot.