After a couple more tries I reloaded my system but this time, instead of using a cinnamon session, I used a gnome classic interface. Guess what, it went like grease on a door knob! Not a single glitch. I also found how to reproduce the error: Make the back up fail: Usually, this is a hang where there is one archive at 0 bytes left in the destination. Once that happens do not logout to reset the session. Restart the backup and it will eventually give you a success message with a backup fail session. It appears that this condition occurs when the ghost process isn't stopped by the logout/login reset.
So, my burning question: Would this be a GTK issue or something related to the new version of Cinnamon?
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After a couple more tries I reloaded my system but this time, instead of using a cinnamon session, I used a gnome classic interface. Guess what, it went like grease on a door knob! Not a single glitch. I also found how to reproduce the error: Make the back up fail: Usually, this is a hang where there is one archive at 0 bytes left in the destination. Once that happens do not logout to reset the session. Restart the backup and it will eventually give you a success message with a backup fail session. It appears that this condition occurs when the ghost process isn't stopped by the logout/login reset.
So, my burning question: Would this be a GTK issue or something related to the new version of Cinnamon?