firestarter start failure?

[Robert Holtzman]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Vitorio Okio wrote:

> I see Firestarter being reported "failed" every single time I start
> either my desktop or laptop.  But as soon the system started
> Firestarter is always up and running.
>
> I think the reason is quite simple and obvious.   The system attempts
> to start Firestarter before the network interface Firestarter is
> configured to is up.  This makes Firestarter rightfully to fail.
> After the system started and the required network interface is up,
> Firestarter starts automatically.

Simple maybe but not so obvious.

First, it never used to fail on boot. That seems to be a recent 
development.

Second, firestarter doesn't show in the output of "ps aux" unless it's GUI 
is open. Not sure if that's recent as I just noticed it.

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Bob Holtzman
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