On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:12:33PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Attempting to run nm-applet gives a mysterious message about "Could not
get the session bus". It then dumps core.
It appears that for whatever reasons your dbus is not running.
Core dumping is a clear bug which is worthy of bugzilla.
You should have a better chance for some meaningfull feedback if you
will look at /var/log/messages and/or try 'nmcli'.
Michal