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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2085

Today's Topics: 

  Large initrd [Was: Re: booting probl  [ Andrei Popescu  Debian in t  [ Mathias Brodala  ]
  Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server     [ Andrew Sackville-West  Debian in t  [ Joe  ]
  Re: how to set network io priority f  [ Douglas Allan Tutty  ]
  Re: kde command line desktop switchi  [ Davide Mancusi  ]
  Re: lost Applications -> Debian in t  [ Manoj Srivastava 

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:23:04 +0300


From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:10:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Miles Bader wrote:
> > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs
> > contents.  Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kernel
> > is running (or is there an official "hint" mechanism I could use)?
>=20


> Yes.  Please try that.
>=20

> > [I thought it just included _every_ possible module on the ramfs --

> > judging from the enormous size of the installed kernel package, it seems
> > like it!]


>=20

> :-)


=20


Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it=20
gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian=20
kernel maintainer suggested it is no longer maintained). So now I'm=20
exploring the initramfs-tools package. The first initrd was about *5=20
(five)* times bigger! I changed the config for including modules from=20
'most' to 'dep' and I got a much smaller (but still a bit bigger then=20
yaird) initrd. Haven't tried to boot with it yet, though ;)


Do you need help?X

Regards,


Andrei


--=20


If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)



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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:28:49 +0300


From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: LAN mail server


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Do you need more help?X

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:17:25AM -0000, rocky wrote:

> Hey list,
>=20


> My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. In order to learn DNS, mail
> server stuff, I installed bind9, apache2, sendmail and ipopd. I have

I don't want to start a flamewar, but do you have any special reasons to=20
learn sendmail? Postfix is my recommendation and the Debian default=20
mailer (MTA) is Exim which many on this list will also recommend.



Regards,


Andrei


--=20


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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:42:49 -0700


From: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

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Can't find what you're looking for?X


Can we help you?X

I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio =
group. I did



$sudo alsaconf



Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Building card database...




Running update-modules...


*
* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
************************************************************************


Loading driver...


Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|=
resume}


Setting default volumes...


amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device



=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D


 Now ALSA is ready to use.


 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.



 Have a lot of fun!






$lspci -v


00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/I=
CH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)                                    =
                      Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown dev=
ice ff00                     Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17                =
                                    I/O ports at 1c00 [size=3D256]       =
                                             I/O ports at 18c0 [size=3D64=
]                                                     Memory at c0000c00 =
(32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D512]                        Memory at =
c0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D256]                        C=
apabilities:                                              =
                                                =20

Don't know where to look next?X

Even after doing alsconf, no sound modules are loaded. I checked with



$ lsmod | grep snd



and it does not give any results.



When I play a file with mplayer, I get the following.




Audio file file format detected.

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D


Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 687 bits!
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 56.0 kbit/7.94% (ratio: 7000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card ''
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_=
card_driver returned error: No such device
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating str=
ings


[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_=
concat returned error: No such device


[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating nam=
e


[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_=
refer returned error: No such device


[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No su=
ch device


[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM defaul=
t


[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such device
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound


Video: no video




Exiting... (End of file)




$ dpkg -l \*alsa\* | grep ^ii

ii  alsa-base            1.0.14-1       ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-oss             1.0.14-1       ALSA wrapper for OSS applications

Confused? Frustrated?X

ii  alsa-tools           1.0.14-1       Console based ALSA utilities for =
specific ha
ii  alsa-tools-gui       1.0.14-1       GUI based ALSA utilities for spec=
ific hardwa
ii  alsa-utils           1.0.14-1       ALSA utilities
ii  alsamixergui         0.9.0rc2-1-9   graphical soundcard mixer for ALS=
A soundcard
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa   0.10.13-2      GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-9       Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X1=


1 and ALSA



$ uname -a


Linux maplehilli4 2.6.22-1-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 29 14:37:42 UTC 2007 i686 G=
NU/Linux


Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365X

Is there any way to overcome this problem?



thanks


raju




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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:35:30 +0200


From: Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?
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Hi Joe.



Joe, 02.08.2007 16:57:

> Gerard Robin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have lost Debian in the menu.
>> update-menus, gives nothing.
>> How can I regenerate in the menus: Debian -> ....? (not manually)
>>
>> I run unstable on acer aspire 5102wlmi amd64 kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64
>> (gnome metacity)
>>
>> thinks in advance for any help.
>>
>=20


> You're gonna laugh...
>=20


> I found this a day or two ago, and found update-menus didn't help,
> but I was a bit short of time. Seeing your post, I idly opened up
> System, Preferences, and thought 'I haven't seen that Main Menu
> before'. Running Sid, I'm quite accustomed to seeing the furniture
> moved around every now and then without my knowledge.
>=20


> Guess what: Main Menu has a list of submenus, including an unticked
> 'Debian'. I ticked it, Debian was back.

This might be a result of the menu transition[0] and maybe worth a report=
, if


there isn=E2=80=99t already one.



Do you need help?X

Regards, Mathias



[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/07/msg00000.html

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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:43:06 -0700


From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:12:33AM -0000, rocky wrote:

> Hey,
>=20


> My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has
> latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as
> file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian
> desktop.
>=20


> I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server on my Debian Etch box. In
> the /etc/exports  and /etc/hosts I made the corresponding
> configurations. From Ubuntu's shell I install and started the nfs-
> common and created a directory /mnt/private. But mount rocky-desk:/
> home/lover/shareTest /mnt/private/ makes owner and group of the /mnt/
> private to nagios. The permission for that is 644. My user name for
> the Ubuntu box is not nagios. I do not even use root to change /mnt/
> private 's permission. Can any of you tell me how I can make the
> ubuntu box's /mnt/private directory with correct user & group so I can
> read and write the files stored on Debian Etch box please?

what are the permissions of the mount point *before* mounting the nfs
share and what is the contents of /etc/exports on the server?



A



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Can we help you?X

Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:57:54 +0100


From: Joe <joe@jretrading.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

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Gerard Robin wrote:

> Hello,
> I have lost Debian in the menu.
> update-menus, gives nothing.
> How can I regenerate in the menus: Debian -> ....? (not manually)
> 
> I run unstable on acer aspire 5102wlmi amd64 kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64 
> (gnome metacity)
> 
> thinks in advance for any help.
> 

You're gonna laugh...



I found this a day or two ago, and found update-menus didn't help,
but I was a bit short of time. Seeing your post, I idly opened up
System, Preferences, and thought 'I haven't seen that Main Menu
before'. Running Sid, I'm quite accustomed to seeing the furniture
moved around every now and then without my knowledge.



Guess what: Main Menu has a list of submenus, including an unticked
'Debian'. I ticked it, Debian was back.



Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:44:38 -0400


From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:02:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:03:50PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >  
> > > It certainly can do what you want, if you leave it running and use it as a
> > > shell and not as a single-command download tool. lftp can carry as many
> > > transfers in parallel as needed, to as many sites as needed, and bounce from
> > > one to another as needed.  Pause them, queue them, stop them, etc.
> > > 
> > > If you need to detach lftp from terminals and access it remotely, screen is
> > > your friend.
> > 
> > It sounds like it will do everything I need except be persistant over
> > reboots.  I'm also going to look into curl.
> 
> According to the description it is scriptable. You could write an 
> initscript ...
> 
Can't find what you're looking for?X

I'm considering creating some kind of user interface to pick URLs to put
into a system queue and have a queue runner start on ppp/ip_up.d and end
on ip_down.d.  To do properly, its a big project.  Similar to writing a
new print spooler.



Doug.



Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>


To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, rocky wrote:


> Hey,
>


> My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has
> latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as
> file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian
> desktop.
>


> I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server on my Debian Etch box. In
> the /etc/exports  and /etc/hosts I made the corresponding
> configurations. From Ubuntu's shell I install and started the nfs-
> common and created a directory /mnt/private. But mount rocky-desk:/
> home/lover/shareTest /mnt/private/ makes owner and group of the /mnt/
> private to nagios. The permission for that is 644. My user name for
> the Ubuntu box is not nagios. I do not even use root to change /mnt/
> private 's permission. Can any of you tell me how I can make the
> ubuntu box's /mnt/private directory with correct user & group so I can
> read and write the files stored on Debian Etch box please?
>


> Blessings,
> Rocky


>


>



With NFS, UIDs must match.  So, your UID, not your username need to be the 
same on both the debian box and your ubuntu box.  You can find this info 
out through the id command.



-+-


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Don't know where to look next?X

Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:23:54 +0200


From: Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: kde command line desktop switching

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Ivan Glushkov ha scritto:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in 
> KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few 
> windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there 
> is a way to make them appear on two desktops.

You might want to have a look at dcop, too. In its man page you will 
find exactly the example you need:


$ dcop kwin KWinInterface nextDesktop


Another possibility:


$ dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface switchDesktops <n>
where <n> is an integer that tells how many desktops to skip (can be 
negative).



Cheers,


Davide


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Date:  Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:35:24 -0500
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:35:30 +0200, Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> sai=
d:=20


> Hi Joe.  Joe, 02.08.2007 16:57:

>> Gerard Robin wrote:
>> I found this a day or two ago, and found update-menus didn't help,
>> but I was a bit short of time. Seeing your post, I idly opened up
>> System, Preferences, and thought 'I haven't seen that Main Menu
>> before'. Running Sid, I'm quite accustomed to seeing the furniture
>> moved around every now and then without my knowledge.
>>=20
>> Guess what: Main Menu has a list of submenus, including an unticked
>> 'Debian'. I ticked it, Debian was back.


> This might be a result of the menu transition[0] and maybe worth a
> report, if there isn=E2=80=99t already one.


        I think this is by design; the GNOME folks seem to think that
 the Debian menu is bloated, confusing, and duplicates the neat ,
 functional, ergonomic Gnome menu, so the default is to hide the ugly
 duckling.

        manoj
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:54:51 +0200
From: "Fabrizio Pedersoli" <f.peder@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable
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Hi all guys!
i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which manages 2
disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly that raid and the
installation process terminates fine. But when i reboot, after linux loads
i20 modules and founds hdd... it stops saying "waiting for root filesystem".
any suggestions??? thanks (and sorry for my english :D).

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Hi all guys!<br>i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which manages 2 disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly that raid and the installation process terminates fine. But when i reboot, after linux loads i20 modules and founds hdd... it stops saying &quot;waiting for root filesystem&quot;. any suggestions??? thanks (and sorry for my english :D).
<br>

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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:40:52 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 18:23:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

[...]


> Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it 
> gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian 
> kernel maintainer suggested it is no longer maintained).


Do you mean this problem?

yaird error: unrecognised line in /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq= (fatal)

That can be fixed relatively easily, see bug #431534, followup 1.
(/usr/lib/yaird/perl/InputTab.pm is patched to simply ignore these new
lines in /proc/bus/input/devices.)

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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:35:01 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]
Message-ID: <20070802173501.GN32121@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:23:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:10:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Miles Bader wrote:
> > > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs
> > > contents.  Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kern=

el

> > > is running (or is there an official "hint" mechanism I could use)?
> >=20
> > Yes.  Please try that.
> >=20
> > > [I thought it just included _every_ possible module on the ramfs --
> > > judging from the enormous size of the installed kernel package, it se=

ems

> > > like it!]
> >=20
> > :-)
> =20
> Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it=20
> gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian=20
> kernel maintainer suggested it is no longer maintained). So now I'm=20
> exploring the initramfs-tools package. The first initrd was about *5=20
> (five)* times bigger!


wow! I never noticed that. And in fact I probably wouldn't have as
 this system doesn't have any initrd's left from yaird. My server
 which was an etch/testing box for a while has a couple older initrd's
 that are 1.4 megs or so versus the newer ones at 5-6megs. yikes.=20

 I changed the config for including modules from=20

> 'most' to 'dep' and I got a much smaller (but still a bit bigger then=20
> yaird) initrd. Haven't tried to boot with it yet, though ;)


same here. interesting. I'll have to play with that. You could
probably tighten it up even more by using the 'list' option and
putting a minimum-necessary list in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. At
least that's how I read it.=20

So what is the significance of initrd size? (other than the obvious
filling up /boot issue). Is it really a problem to have "most" modules
in there? I can think of some situations where it might be nice to
have most of them -- mobo fails catastrophically and you want to be
able to just boot, for example.=20

Finally, I have on this (sid) system both initrd-tools and
initramfs-tools installed. The latter is brought in by the kernel
dependencies, and the former is manually installed. Who knows why or
when I did that, but is one preferred over the other?=20


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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:06:59 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
	(ICH5/ICH5R)
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

> I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio group. I did
> 
> $sudo alsaconf
> 
> Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
> Building card database...
> 
> 
> Running update-modules...
> 
> ************************************************************************
> *
> * The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
> *
> ************************************************************************
> 
> Loading driver...
> Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}


This is where things do wrong: Instead of directly reloading the sound
modules (as it did in earlier versions) the script now calls
/etc/init.d/alsa with an undefined action specification. It seems that
alsaconf is more or less depreciated, see for example the reactions to
bugs #430624 and #432678. 


> Setting default volumes...
> amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device


This is a consequence of the missing modules.

[...]


> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)


[...]


> Even after doing alsconf, no sound modules are loaded. I checked with
> 
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> 
> and it does not give any results.


[...]


> Is there any way to overcome this problem?


Try to run:

udevtrigger -v --subsystem-match=sound

or modprobe the sound modules manually. 

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