[Network] Networks system tray status indicator shows as disconnected (little red X) even though it's connected and working.

[TheMullet]

I just upgraded from Kubuntu 25.10 to 26.04 yesterday night. I'm encountering a few bugs.

The Networks status indicator in the system tray shows as disconnected, even though my ethernet connection is connected and working.

For the record, I am using Proton VPN and it is connected and working fine. It used to show the connection status as connected before on 25.10.

Is there a way to reset the status? Maybe clear some files in my home folder? Can it be fixed?

[die.boer]

if you are on wayland (probably are ) , 1 ; run :

systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

2 ; reset plasma's caches :

rm -rf ~/.cache/*

see if icon changed

[TheMullet]

Hello,

I tried those commands and removing the cache, but the problem persists. From my browsing, I found that I'm not the only person with this problem.

[die.boer]

please run these commands too and post output

nmcli general

nmcli device status

nmcli networking connectivity

seems there might be a bug too according to this: https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma6-kd...ce=chatgpt.com
those commands will tell if it is a network thingy (not likely) , or the bug