> I haven't seen a FTape package in the stable distribution that works with
> the 2.0.38 Debian Kernel.
>
> Does anybody know where I can find one?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad Dittmer
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (john smith) wrote:
> changing potato to unstable doesnt seem to work via apt. how can I access
>unstable archive via apt?
It should work fine, although it may depend on the server you're using.
What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?
Also, you *did* do an 'apt-get upd
Hello all,
I have a Debian system running kernel 2.0.38 that is supposed to be
acting as a router between two networks. For the past many months,
we've had our nameserver doing the routing because it was far less
flaky. We've fixed the problems in the hardware, finally, and would
like to go
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 10:40:19AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open tmp file "/home/paul/.Xauthority-n"
> > /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to write authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority-n
> >
> > Is this potentially a permission problem? What should they be?
>
> i
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, rodcostain wrote:
:Hello All;
:I am a new person to the Debian Linux thing and would like to know
:about how to go about starting to install a Debian Linux system on my
:computer. I have never tried any Linux system before but have heard
:good things about it.
:I Parti
hi,
changing potato to unstable doesnt seem to work via apt. how can I access
unstable archive via apt?
thanks.
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I am a new person to the Debian Linux thing and would like to know
about how to go about starting to install a Debian Linux system on my
computer. I have never tried any Linux system before but have heard
good things about it.
I Partition Magic to format a partition on the drive
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe that apt hang when the newest cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) is one of
> the
> packages that it has to install.
>
> Package: cvs
> Version: 1.10.7-5
> Severity: normal
Yes. It's been reported as a bug, and from the explanation it's easy
to find a t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote:
>I believe that apt hang when the newest cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) is one of the
>packages that it has to install.
Refer to other threads, but you can get round this with
'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' (or possibly 'dpkg-reconfigure
--frontend=text --priority=medi
System
Celeron 333
96 MB RAM
2.1 GB Samsung HD
SiS 5595 Chipset (66/100 MHz bus)
I am planning to buy a USB modem shortly. Are there any plans to write
drivers for Linux any time soon? I also cannot get the built-in SIS
6326 video to work properly in X-Windows. Any ideas on this? I'm using
> /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open tmp file "/home/paul/.Xauthority-n"
> /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to write authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority-n
>
> Is this potentially a permission problem? What should they be?
i believe i just read a message in debian-user about there being a problem
I got this problem last night as well, turns out the culprit was
the
postinst script for cvs. I uninstalled cvs and reinstalled it from
scratch
and it works fine after that.
Regards,
Todd
At 10:47 AM 3/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
I am running `potato', and upgrade packages
every day (yes, I'm l
Yup... I installed everything by hand. All but cvs worked. It hung the same way
on cvs.
On 03-Mar-2000 Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> This is merely bug #59511, which has already been reported
>
>
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> "...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume.
>
> I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same
> ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this.
>
> Last night I recompiled the kernel (a potato system, I had
David declared,
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get
> > anything from a remote machine to display. Jobs on this machine
> > can display remotely. I've tried displaying on my own box with
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 10:47:55AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> I am running `potato', and upgrade packages every day (yes, I'm living
> on the edge here).
> [...]
same here. but i use apt-get
> ... and it just hung. The processes that were eating up CPU time were
> `config.2668' and `dpkg-preco
"Timothy C. Phan" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a grep usera /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the usera
> is in this file. However, this smbpasswd file has the
> 0700 permission, is this the problem?
Probably not, it needs to have this permission. Who is the owner of the file.
> The usera also try to
I believe that apt hang when the newest cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) is one of the
packages that it has to install.
Package: cvs
Version: 1.10.7-5
Severity: normal
[20:23:22 /tmp]# apt-get install cvs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, cvs is already the newest ve
This is merely bug #59511, which has already been reported
I am running `potato', and upgrade packages every day (yes, I'm living
on the edge here).
This morning I ran `dselect', chose "[U]pdate", "[S]elect", and
"[I]nstall" as usual. It showed me 15 packages that it would upgrade
(the following list only shows 14 packages; that's because I upgraded
`deb
> /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open tmp file "/tmp/Xauthef4473-n"
> /usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to write authority file /tmp/Xauthef4473-n
>
> and X11 forwarding does not work. This file (Xauthef4473-n) exists and has
> the following
> permissions:
> -rw---1 myname users
>
> Any id
We use a Debian 2.2 (potato) box as a print/file/web server. For our
print services we use the LPRng package in combination with the "ifhp"
input/output filters. We include a banner page to separate and
distinguish user print jobs.
This all works fine. However, it would be desirable to utilize
Does anyone know what I need to enable in the 2.3.x kernels to get rarp
support? I've looked thru the kernel and dont seem to see it
anywhere. /proc/net/rarp doesnt exist on my box now :(
-- Jeff
Hi,
today I upgraded from slink to potato. Everything worked fine despite ssh.
I enabled X11 forwarding in ssh_config.
When I log from the potato box to another slink box everything works fine.
But when I ssh from a slink box into the potato machine I get a
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open t
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Karl Gordon wrote:
> [snip] I also cannot get the built-in SIS 6326 video to work
> properly in X-Windows. Any ideas on this? I'm using Hamm.
Hi Karl
There was a not-very-long thread about a year ago on Debian-User
about this video card and chipset.
My student, Carl Mummer
>
Thanks for the insight. I ended up changing to having the drivers loaded in
the kernel and adding the append statement into the lilo.conf file. I can now
communicate with both the internal and external networks.
I also removed my networking statements from the /etc/init.d/network file and
ad
I recently went to the ftp.us.debian.org and downloaded all the
binary-i386 file and the files necessary to make the (Slink) rescue disk
etc. I put all the files on a CD-R and the fist stage of the
installation went well but when I get to the part with dselect there are
problems. is there another
System
Celeron 333
96 MB RAM
2.1 GB Samsung HD
SiS 5595 Chipset (66/100 MHz bus)
I am planning to buy a USB modem shortly. Are there any plans to write
drivers for Linux any time soon? I also cannot get the built-in SIS
6326 video to work properly in X-Windows. Any ideas on this? I'm using
Ha
Russell Coker wrote:
>
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >Hi!
> >I have been searching, but to no avail, to find the latest Debian kernel for
> >my Amiga 2000. Would you know of where I might be able to download this?
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I am sorry but I have never used Linux on a M68K pla
I have a 6GB hard-disk, which is partitioned 4gb windows, 2gb linux. My
system has crashed a couple of times lately, wiping out my linux partition
(Windows seems to like to hose it, something screwy with the BIOS Parameter
Block I think. Anyhow, I have a CD-burner (which is connected via USB, and
thanks for all the replies on that, i'll try em out..
looks like the one that will work is the screen one that markin
sent. kmself@ix.netcom.com's suggestions didn't load icecast and ethan's i
think depends on potato's start-stop-daemon(i run slink) maybe i can
compile it manually if markin's scre
I just installed 'frozen' as my first trial of debian. I had a general
question:
I have two System.Map files on my system. a /System.Map and
/boot/System.map-2.2.14
My system crashed (damn laptop suspend and X), and when I rebooted I got a
message about something worng with
System.Map-2.2.14 in /
The old kernel was 2.2.12. I am currently using
potato.
When I go back to the old kernel I am still having the
same problems. I can fix all of the path statements
by hand, but the xserver problem makes no sense since
the files seem to be in place. The xserver starts but
with no window-manager. It
Hello,
I am using APT to upgrade my debian distribution, but I have some
problems which I cannot find a solution because I have not found
enough APT docs.
So I ask you:
1) How can I set a correct "file" or "copy" source in sources.list?
2) How can I make a directory in my hard disk as a source o
Hello,
I am using APT to upgrade my debian distribution, but I have some
problems which I cannot find a solution because I have not found
enough APT docs.
So I ask you:
1) How can I set a correct "file" or "copy" source in sources.list?
2) How can I make a directory in my hard disk as a source o
Hello,
I am using APT to upgrade my debian distribution, but I have some
problems which I cannot find a solution because I have not found
enough APT docs.
So I ask you:
1) How can I set a correct "file" or "copy" source in sources.list?
2) How can I make a directory in my hard disk as a source o
Hello,
I am using APT to upgrade my debian distribution, but I have some
problems which I cannot find a solution because I have not found
enough APT docs.
So I ask you:
1) How can I set a correct "file" or "copy" source in sources.list?
2) How can I make a directory in my hard disk as a source o
the correct ftp site is
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/utils/bsdmainutils_4.4.0.1.deb
I changed slinks to slink
and bscmainutils_4.4.0.1.deb to bsdmainutils_4.4.0.1.deb
you can ftp to the ftp.debian.org site and then change directories to get
the correct site.
Dan
Quoting Tim Ryder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I updated my kernel to 2.2.14 and it blew out my path statements.
Colourful expression but I have no idea what you mean. Sorry.
It might be helpful to know whether you use slink or potato
and what the previous kernel version was.
Cheers,
--
Email: [EMAI
> The file -
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slinks/main/binary-i386/utils/bsdmainutils_44.4.0.1.deb
>
It is slink and bsdmainutils_4.4.0.1.deb, not slinks and
bsdmainutils_44.4.0.1.deb.
Anyway, it does work for me.
I would try with an ftp program if the browser can not handle it.
> will
Hi,
Why not try a real postscript printer?
I just bought a Laxmark Optra Color 40 from buy.com at $98.xx. It works great.
The only downside is that it does not come with a printer cable.
--
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J419, Phys. Dept., City College of New York
ICQ: 61833446
It seems that latest X in potato has removed the support for
/etc/X11/window-managers in Xsession.
So how does one start fvwm95 automatically from xdm ??
In documentation I found just the removal mentioned,
but no alternative:
* debian/xfree86-common/Xsession:
- remove support for /etc/X1
Hello there,
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, S.P. van Noort wrote:
> the
> only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the
> HP 610C.
I just recently bought a HP 610C, and it works really fine.
> The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o.
> HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880
"S.P. van Noort" wrote:
>
> I want to buy a (not to expensive color) printer which will be used on a
> Linux-only-box, and I wonder of any of you has some good ideas about it.
>
> The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o.
> HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880
> Epson 460, 660, 760
> Canon 2000
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Tim Ryder wrote:
> Has anyone ever used Xi accelerated x with debian for
> laptops?
Yes i used it for a couple of minutes just the time to learn that the registered
version doesn't work fine on Woody :((
i admit that i didn't read documentation before install so pay attention not
install
thinkin
I am working on an important project with a rapidly approaching deadline.
I have a Pentium II running Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1, although I have installed
quite a few packages from potato manually (i.e., by downloading them and saying
dpkg -iGREB ). I am running kernel version 2.0.35, a
custom compil
Hi
I clearly remember that in slink's mysql it was possible to start mysqld
with a switch that wouldn't require password to access any databases.
Does it still exist in potato's mysql? What is the switch?
I know it's bad policy, but i don't have any valuable information in it
(just bugzilla and b
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:42PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote
> Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com,
> > 'at' is a very useful one-time scheduler. I use it frequently as an
> > alternative to backgrounding stuff, say:
>
> When my clock-radio broke recently, I started using at as an alarm
> clock, setting
Hi All,
I have to install potato on a computer which locks with standard potato's
installation kernel.
This machine has a NIC (wd8003) located at 0x280. During the boot time
one of the SCSI drivers (probably sim710) included in the standard kernel
tries to detect the SCSI controller at the same a
It's even worse than that -- Xwrapper doesn't get installed, so I can't
run
X as a non-root user :(
help?
marc.
> -Original Message-
> From: Marc Wandschneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:16 AM
> To: 'debian-user@lists
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:48:29AM -0600, Brad wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works.
> >
> > man (8) mklost+found for more info.
>
> Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes
I am running an original hamm system but upgraded to libc6 (v 2.1.1) and
kernel 2.2.10.
I ran "apt-get update" to potato succesfully. When I try
apt-get install libc6
the error message
(Reading database ... 6883 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6
hello!
i recently installed a bare bones Debian 2.1r4 system from a CD i
burned a
week or so back. now, i believe I choose the basic 'developer' system with
nothing else, because i'm kinda freaky and like to build everything myself.
now, i downloaded all the XFree86 3.3.6 tarba
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:59:40PM +, José Luis Gómez Dans generated a
stream of 1s and 0s:
> Hi!
> I have so far been experiencing erratic svgalib behaviour.
> Basically, if I call something like zgv, I get the following message:
> c172d
> Int 0x10 is not in rom (:)
> No VESA bi
I like apsfilter, works instantly for my "killer" canon bjc-4100 because
ghostscript supports it. You are pretty much limited by what ghostscript
supports.
--
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32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
operating system originally coded f
Try the ones at:
ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian/dists/potato/kde/bianary-i386
--
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Rob Rati wrote:
> Does anyone know of a site with KDE packages that have the correct
> dependencies? The ones off the KDE site still depend on qt1g, which has
> become libqt1g in potato. Eve
I've been trying to install debian on my friends compaq presario (some
Pentium 2 model w/ USB and a big ugly case) and the machine keeps
hanging...to the point where i have to power cycle it. It seems to
have something to do w/ the PS2 bus in it because it hangs most often
when i'm using the mouse
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:48:29AM -0600, Brad wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works.
> >
> > man (8) mklost+found for more info.
>
> Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works.
>
> man (8) mklost+found for more info.
Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes, i actually RTFS ;),
all it does is mkdir /lost+found, create a bun
This is something important, i hope that by posting this i can help
people not fall victim to this bug.
xbase-clients version 3.3.6-4 has a nasty bug in the xauth command. This
bug will cause ssh X11 forwarding to fail, and if xauth add or xauth
remove is run on the ~/.Xauthority file it will caus
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:42PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
>
> I also have a problem on a slink system with a (at least one) cron.daily
> job not running. It's a logcheck script, and runs fine when strated from
> a shell prompt. There is no evidence anywhere what is going on - nothing
> in the
> I cannot get apt-get to work with an HTTP proxy. I'm using squid as the
> proxy server.
>
It is working for me (although I have it as a line in /etc/apt/apt.conf).
> I issue the following commands:
>
> export http_proxy="http://server:3128/"; (where server is the name of the
>
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:05:28PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:41:55PM -, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > I am trying to install debian 2.1 for the 1st time, I have a D-Link
> > DFE-530TX PCI network card, it's not listed in the list of supported network
> > cards, can i u
The file -
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slinks/main/binary-i386/utils/bsdmainutils_44.4.0.1.deb
will not work when I click on it to download.
Instead it goes to an ftp start directory with /bin /etc /pub directories (none
of which work)
I can't download the file:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slinks/main/binary-i386/utils/bscmainutils_4.4.0.1.deb
When I click on it, I am taken out to another ftp login
menu. The one for hurd works just fine.
Quoth aphro,
> whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start
> on boot..
>
> what i got goin is..
>
> su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null &
Have you tried nohup? I tend to find that it works pretty well, and
creates a handy nohup.out file, contai
http://kde.tdyc.com
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:20:28PM +, Rob Rati wrote:
> Does anyone know of a site with KDE packages that have the correct
> dependencies? The ones off the KDE site still depend on qt1g, which has
> become libqt1g in potato. Everytime I upgrade or install new packages,
>
Seems to you were right. I just turned off the swap partition in the
second vt, formated and turned it on again. And that was all! Now it
works.
Thank you!
> Hmmm, this almost sounds like a bug some of the slink (Debian 2.1)
> boot-floppy builds had... have you tried switching to the second vt
On 02-Mar-2000 Rob Rati wrote:
> Does anyone know of a site with KDE packages that have the correct
> dependencies? The ones off the KDE site still depend on qt1g, which has
> become libqt1g in potato. Everytime I upgrade or install new packages,
> I have to remove all the KDE packages, and this
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:15:07AM +, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
> Thanks guys for your help. It's up and running and seems
> to be working well. I did notice one thing I don't
> remember seeing before. I've now got a 67meg file in /proc
> (kcore). Is this a real file? If so, how do I get rid
Does anyone know of a site with KDE packages that have the correct
dependencies? The ones off the KDE site still depend on qt1g, which has
become libqt1g in potato. Everytime I upgrade or install new packages,
I have to remove all the KDE packages, and this is starting to get
annoying. Has anyon
Thanks guys for your help. It's up and running and seems
to be working well. I did notice one thing I don't
remember seeing before. I've now got a 67meg file in /proc
(kcore). Is this a real file? If so, how do I get rid of it?
Thanks again
MaryK
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> And I get the following:
> Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main wget 1.5.3-1.1
> 504 Gateway Time-out
This is an error directly from squid, there is something wrong on that
end.
Jason
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Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com,
> 'at' is a very useful one-time scheduler. I use it frequently as an
> alternative to backgrounding stuff, say:
When my clock-radio broke recently, I started using at as an alarm
clock, setting it to play MP3s for me in the morning to wake me up (my
schedule isn't re
I haven't seen a FTape package in the stable distribution that works with
the 2.0.38 Debian Kernel.
Does anybody know where I can find one?
Thanks
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:26:57PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems
> > > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode
> > > > is essentially
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems
> > > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode
> > > > is essentially a database entry in a
Subject: Re: transfering to new HDD
Date: Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:54:00PM +0200
In reply to:Shaul Karl
Quoting Shaul Karl([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
>| > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
>| > >
>| > > >
I cannot get apt-get to work with an HTTP proxy. I'm using squid as the
proxy server.
I issue the following commands:
export http_proxy="http://server:3128/"; (where server is the name of the
proxy machine)
apt-get install blah
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:43:23PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I tried connecting to my ISP a little while before and after typing
> "pon", noticed the following lines appear in one of my logs:
>
> Mar 2 18:35:01 phoenix pppd[845]: pppd 2.3.11 started by ssahmed, uid 1000
> Mar 2 18:35:01 p
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start
> on boot..
>
> what i got goin is..
>
> su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null &
>
> BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without t
I've been intending to post a rant about how users should approach
reporting bugs in Debian for quite a while, but Freshmeat beat me to it.
There are a number of ways in which non-programmers can contribute to
software projects; documentation and testing are among the most
frequently-
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems
> > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode
> > > is essentially a database entry in a table giving storage location,
> > > name, and values
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start
> on boot..
>
> what i got goin is..
>
> su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null &
>
> BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without t
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:43:23PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I tried connecting to my ISP a little while before and after typing
> "pon", noticed the following lines appear in one of my logs:
>
> Mar 2 18:35:01 phoenix pppd[845]: pppd 2.3.11 started by ssahmed, uid 1000
> Mar 2 18:35:01 p
whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start
on boot..
what i got goin is..
su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null &
BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without the & its
fine..i thought of doing screen but i cant figure out how to a
Ok, I reconfigured my keyboard as suggested by a couple of people, and that
fixed the login problem, but X was still failing to load on boot. On checking
the /init.d/kdm file I noticed that it was failing because it was looking for a
command parse-xf86config which was apparently removed when the n
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