Title: Fatal Error Activating Plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Fatal Error Activating Plugin

 *  [Victor Font](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfontj/)
 * (@vfontj)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-activating-plugin/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin to backup my database for a couple of years. Today
   I noticed that the plugin was only backing 20kb of a 31mb database. I deactivated
   the plugin. When I went to reactivate it, I received the following error:
 * PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on a non-object in /public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager/wp-dbmanager.php on line 356
 * The plugin will not restart.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/)

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 * Last reply from: [Victor Font](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfontj/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-activating-plugin/)
 * Status: not resolved