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This may not be the fault of Ben Escoto, then again...

I am blogging with Word Press using Firefox as my browser on a Fedora Core 4
system while a Cron job is running an rdiff-backup. I hit a cursor key and
KA-POW! All gone. Firefox is missing from the radar screen.

Very curious. I go over to the Win 98 machine. Start Firefox. Go back to
creating a WordPress post. No problemo!

This happens all the time when a backup is occurring and is quite
frustrating. I can use Wordpress / Firefox on the Linux system with no
problem at other times.

Holmes! I say, Holmes!

"Jonathan W. Smith" <jonathan.w.smith < at > att.net>
wrote the following on Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:36:34 -0400

I am blogging with Word Press using Firefox as my browser on a
Fedora Core 4 system while a Cron job is running an rdiff-backup. I
hit a cursor key and KA-POW! All gone. Firefox is missing from the
radar screen.

Very curious. I go over to the Win 98 machine. Start Firefox. Go
back to creating a WordPress post. No problemo!

This happens all the time when a backup is occurring and is quite
frustrating. I can use Wordpress / Firefox on the Linux system with
no problem at other times.

I really don't think this is an rdiff-backup bug Look at the
firefox logs or coredump I guess and see why it crashed. My guess is
that you have an inadequate power supply or some other semi-faulty
equipment (memory, etc.). Running rdiff-backup and a few other apps
simultaneously draws enough power to make the system unstable in a way
only a particular app notices.

This may not be the fault of Ben Escoto, then again...

...most things are? :-P


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Ben Escoto

Thanks for the consideration of a reply. I had failed to consider it a hardware issue. I will investigate. And, thanks for a very fine product.

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From: Ben Escoto <ben < at > emerose.org>