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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2248

Today's Topics: 

  Re: boot error                        [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a   [ Shams Fantar  ]
  Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (  [ Andrei Popescu  ]
  Re: ipod mount error                  [ "Richard Lyons"  ]
  Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a   [ Shams Fantar  ]
  Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed     [ Carl Fink  ]
  Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a   [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Re: boot error                        [ Florian Kulzer 

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200


From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: boot error

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by
> > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on.
> > > 
> > > the message is:
> > > 
> > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file.
> > 
> > It should be "haldaemon". (I assume this is just a typo since you
> > probably could not copy/paste the message directly.) The relevant
> > configuration file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf:
> > 
> > $ grep -A2 haldaemon /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
> >   <!-- Only root or user haldaemon can own the HAL service -->
> >   <policy user="haldaemon">
> >     <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
> >   </policy>
> 
>    I have no hal.conf in that directory ??

[...]


> > The post-installation script of the hal
> > package is supposed to create the haldaemon user and group if they do
> > not exist. You can check if the user exists:
> > 
> > $ grep hal /etc/passwd
> 
>    and no hal or haldaemon user???
Do you need help?X

Then maybe you are not using the "hal" package at all. What is the
output of "dpkg -l hal\*"?


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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:02:56 +1000
From: Charlie <ariestao@clearmail.com.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: USB..... detected not working since upgrade...
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On Friday 24 August 2007 18:32, Bert Schulze shared this with us all:
>--} On 24 Aug., 08:40, Charlie <aries...@clearmail.com.au> wrote:
>--} > The USB ports are detected, and the lights go on and someone is home.

> Then the --} > lights go off as every USB port leaves.

>--} >
>--} > tail /var/log/messages and unplug then plug them in, the lights go on

> for a --} > moment, then out and leaves these messages:-

>--} >
>--} > Aug 24 16:29:36 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 6
>--} > Aug 24 16:29:36 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1.4: USB disconnect, address 7
>--} > Aug 24 16:29:38 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device

> using --} > ehci_hcd and address 8

>--} > Aug 24 16:29:38 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from

> 1 --} > choice

>--} > Aug 24 16:29:38 taogypsy kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: USB hub found
>--} > Aug 24 16:29:38 taogypsy kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
>--} > Aug 24 16:29:39 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1.4: new full speed USB device

> using --} > ehci_hcd and address 9

>--} > Aug 24 16:29:39 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1.4: configuration #1 chosen

> from 1 --} > choice

>--} >
>--} > Anyone with any ideas?
>--} >
>--} > TIA
>--} > Charlie
>--}
>--} As i can see you are using a hub. My first opinion is theres not
>--} enough power? Which would be right if the hub is bus powered and not
>--} powered by an external ac adapter.
>--} Did you try it on other boxes and does it work there?

Everything worked on this laptop computer Acer Aspire 3614WLCi using Debian 
testing till the last couple of upgrades.

Hub Scanner etc, works on an older Acer 3650 laptop, with Debian Etch, and in 
windows on that machine.

You might be correct suggesting not enough power..........

The scanner doesn't do anything with its carriage and there are no lights 
working in it when plugged in.

I have changed from an external USB to Serial cable dial up modem. To an 
Ethernet satellite self powered modem. The dialup modem plugged into the bus 
powered hub ensured the USB system of the computer was constantly activated. 
The light was on all the time, because the modem was connected and working.

Now the hub light goes on and stays on.... only........ when I have something 
like one of my external self powered DVD drives plugged in. This must be 
constantly demanding of the computers USB system through the bus powered hub. 
So the hub is activated and lights on.

But when nothing that requires constant surveillance [turned off printer] is 
connected to the hub. The light stays out.

My system sees, recognises and labels my scanner correctly. But the scanner 
doesn't demand power just by being plugged in. 

charlie@taogypsy:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04a9:220e Canon, Inc. CanoScan N1240U/LiDE 30

So the computer USB system doesn't kick in. Even when Xsane is evoked. It says 
it is getting a preview, but the preview pane is black, and the lights and 
carriage in the scanner remain off and stationary, respectively.

If I plug in an external DVD drive, the hub is activated, the light goes on, 
the DVD reads and writes, and if I leave the external DVD drive plugged in, 
the hub lights still on and plug the scanner into the hub. The scanner works 
as described above. No lights, no carriage animation.

If I leave the hub working by leaving the external DVD drive plugged in, and 
use another USB port ***directly*** to the motherboard of the computer [in 
the computers side] The scanner still doesn't have any lights working or 
carriage animation.

I think it may be a power issue, but this was never the case previously?

It's an interesting situation which is new to me.

taogypsy:~# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I'm not certain that the USB system should be activating the hub [lights on] 
if there is nothing demanding it's power? I think I like it better the way it 
is now, but then how do I get the scanner working?

Too many questions and more questing required.

Thank you for your interest and suggestion.
Charlie
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:03:49 +0200
From: Shams Fantar <sfantar@snurf.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote:
>   

>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode
>>> (avoids mounting the drive rw).  See if the messages show up in dmesg.
>>> Then reboot into normal mode and check syslog for that boot (ignore
>>> previous boots).  
>>>       
>> There are the same messages.
>>
>>     
>>> The thing about S.M.A.R.T.  If it says the drive is failing, then it is.
>>> If it says the drive is OK then it may be, or not.
>>>
>>> Try booting either the install disk in rescue mode or a live CD so that
>>> the drive is totally unmounted.  Run a full filesystem check with
>>> read/write badblocks check.  I'm not thinking you'll find bad blocks,
>>> but it forces the drive firmware to verify each block of the disk
>>> platter.  Check the syslog of the live or install CD to see if you have
>>> the same errors.  
>>>       
>> Yes, there are still the same messages.
>>
>>     
>>> Then reboot the normal system and check syslog again.  Then start
>>> another S.M.A.R.T. long test and wait its recommended time and review
>>> the result.
>>>       
>> The new long test available at http://jumble.snurf.info/desktop/hard-disk
>>
>> So is it dead?
>>
>>     
>

> According to SMART, the drive is fine.  If the filesystem badblocks
> check was OK then that seems to be OK too.

>

> So I don't know why you're having DMA errors.  Hopefully someone who
> knows more about SMART and the ide driver can shed some light.  Perhaps
> its a driver issue.

>

> Doug.

>
>

>   


Okay.

-- 
Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info)



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:34:32 +0300
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:

>> Do you get different results if you pass --without-recommends as a=20
>> command-line option?
>

> Yes, that seems to do the trick!


[...]


> So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending apache
> 1.3, right?  I've played a bit around with apt-cache --recurse depends
> but I couldn't figure out the culprit (at least not in 3 minutes :-)

>

> It seems like I might to add the --without-recommends into apt.conf.


If you are in interactive mode you should be able to unmark a recommend. =
=20
I think you can achieve the same on command-line if you pass=20
'notwantedpackage-'.

Regards,
Andrei
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:38:52 +0200
From: Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive
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Hi.

- Tong -, 25.08.2007 05:51:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:42 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:

>=20
>>> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive=
?=20
>> See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold".
>=20

> [=E2=80=A6]

>=20

> Please be *responsible* with what you said. Do you know that your "hold=

"

> does not work?


Nope. Only heard about it multiple times and thought it might be the solu=
tion
here. I never used it myself.


> If you are not sure yourself, shouldn't you at least test
> it before blunt it out?


I don=E2=80=99t use aptitude.


> If you want to help, then give *real* help, not
> giving false directions to waste other's time.=20


You just could take my hint for further research if it doesn=E2=80=99t wo=
rk directly.
(You could have come up with the idea to put everything tex-related on ho=
ld, for
example.)


Regards, Mathias

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:25:10 +0100 (BST)
From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: ipod mount error
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OT and hijacking my own thread...

Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod:

    Failed to remove watch

SOunds like a text message from a pickpocket to me.  But it seems to
indicate a problem that prevents unmounting/ejecting the ipod.  I
suppose, therefore that I am risking corrupting the database if I
unplug it anyway.

TIA

--=20

richard



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:19:34 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:

> > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending apache
> > 1.3, right?  I've played a bit around with apt-cache --recurse depends
> > but I couldn't figure out the culprit (at least not in 3 minutes :-)
> >
> > It seems like I might to add the --without-recommends into apt.conf.
> 
> If you are in interactive mode you should be able to unmark a recommend.  
> I think you can achieve the same on command-line if you pass 
> 'notwantedpackage-'.


I don't know if that will work.  Unless you tell aptitude to not tread
recommends as strong depends, it may automatically resolve these
dependancies.

However, in the CUI, you can select the option to not treat recommends
as strong depends.  When you select a pacakge for installation that has
recommends, they won't be marked then for installation.  When you hit
'g'o the first time, aptitude presents a list of what it wants to do but
it also presents the list of packages that are recommended and suggested
by packages that are marked for installation.  You can then select from
these.  

Doug.



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:46:01 -0400
From: Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: boot error
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:


> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by
> > > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on.
> > > > 
> > > > the message is:
> > > > 
> > > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file.
> > > 
> > > It should be "haldaemon". (I assume this is just a typo since you
> > > probably could not copy/paste the message directly.) The relevant
> > > configuration file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf:
> > > 
> > > $ grep -A2 haldaemon /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
> > >   <!-- Only root or user haldaemon can own the HAL service -->
> > >   <policy user="haldaemon">
> > >     <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
> > >   </policy>
> > 
> >    I have no hal.conf in that directory ??
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > The post-installation script of the hal
> > > package is supposed to create the haldaemon user and group if they do
> > > not exist. You can check if the user exists:
> > > 
> > > $ grep hal /etc/passwd
> > 
> >    and no hal or haldaemon user???
> 
> Then maybe you are not using the "hal" package at all. What is the
> output of "dpkg -l hal\*"?


dpkg -l hal\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
++
+-========================-========================-================================================================
pn  hal                      <none>                   (no description available) 
pn  hal-device-manager       <none>                   (no description available) 
pn  hal-doc                  <none>                   (no description available) 
pn  hal-info                 <none>                   (no description available) 
pn  halibut                  <none>                   (no description available)

Not there. What else could cause the problem ??

Thanks

Cheers

Frank

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Do you need more help?X

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:13:31 +0200
From: "[L]ash" <lash@semailer.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Pcmcia express card
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Hi all

I need to buy a ethernet pcmcia express card for my notebook (its
integrated ethernet card is broken).
Can anyone suggest me a device that work with linux!??

Thanks in advance



Im sorry for my bad english

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:02 +0200
From: Shams Fantar <sfantar@snurf.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?
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Frank McCormick wrote:

>    I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been
> getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running
> SMART and every test I have done shows no problem. Booted with the
> install disk and run fschk so many time I have lost track.


Do you mean fsck rather than fschk ? But, having read the manual, I 
don't know which option(s) to use? I prefer to ask you which option(s) 
to use before making mistakes. ;-)


> Never a problem, but DMA timeouts continue. I have come to the conclusion it's
> some obscure bug, perhaps in the IDE module. It *never* affects
> anything else as the drive is fast and so far reliable. If/when it dies
> I'll change my opinion.
>  
>   


I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) 
the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure.

I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. 
I still have the same problem with another kernels. So, I don't think 
that it comes from somewhere else but it's instead hardware...

Regards,

-- 
Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info)



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:47:52 -0400
From: Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed
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Note: top posting fixed.  Please don't do that.  Also overquoting trimmed.

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 02:43:41AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:


> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >>how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls.
> >>The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on
> >>disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves
> >>back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer is about to
> >>happen.  Trojan file names get changed too whenever this happens too.
> >
> >How would a trojan be activated to copy itself back if block zero was
> >wiped, a new partitition table was installed, and new file systems
> >created?  Yes, an image of a trojan may still exist in the unused sectors
> >of the first track of a partition, but how could it be activated?

> Very easily.  The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself 
> was to call home.  Home has the address of the trojaned machine.  Home can 
> then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it 
> as necessary.


That makes zero sense, unless you assume the newly installed system will
have the same security hole as the first.  If it does, then why bother
reactivating the former Trojan?  Just install it again.

In any case, the LKM warning is a WELL KNOWN FALSE POSITIVE from chkrootkit. 
IIRC it can be cause by something as simple as a very high system load.
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:47:00 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote:
 

> I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) 
> the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure.
> 
> I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. 
> I still have the same problem with another kernels. So, I don't think 
> that it comes from somewhere else but it's instead hardware...
> 


Try updating Etch.  Ensure that you have the linux-image-486
meta-package installed, which depends on the linux-image-2.6-486
meta-package installed, which in turn depends on the most recent version
which is 2.6.18-5-486.   Perhaps the bug has been fixed.

Doug.



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:48:42 -0700
From: Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed
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On Saturday 25 August 2007 00:43, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Very easily.  The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself
> was to call home.  Home has the address of the trojaned machine.  Home can
> then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it
> as necessary.


Please don't top-post.

You will recall that block zero has been wiped, new partition tables
have been installed, and new filesystems created.  At worst inactive
copis of one or more malwares lies in unused portions of the drives
where nothing in Debian will voluntarily or accidently activate it.

How can "home" check up on its trojan, maintain it, activate it or
repair it without the non-existent cooperation of the target system?

Your argument seems to be that if I have a dead burglar robot in my house,
the dead burglar robot's owner can call up the dead burglar robot and
instruct the dead burglar robot to unlock a door of my house so that the
dead burglar robot's owner can enter and repair the dead burglar robot.

--Mike Bird



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:42:45 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: boot error
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200
> Florian Kulzer wrote:


[...]


> > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by
> > > > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on.
> > > > > 
> > > > > the message is:
> > > > > 
> > > > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file.


[...]


> > Then maybe you are not using the "hal" package at all. What is the
> > output of "dpkg -l hal\*"?
> 
> dpkg -l hal\*


[...]


> pn  hal                      <none>                   (no description available) 
> pn  hal-device-manager       <none>                   (no description available) 
> pn  hal-doc                  <none>                   (no description available) 
> pn  hal-info                 <none>                   (no description available) 
> pn  halibut                  <none>                   (no description available)
> 
> Not there. What else could cause the problem ??


The fact that hal is not installed causes the message. Something else
seems to assume that the haldaemon user exists. You can either ignore
the message, or install hal (why did you purge it?), or find out which
configuration file on your system contains a reference to haldaemon and
file a bug against the corresponding package. (I assume that if another
package has a configuration file that refers to the haldaemon user then
it should depend or maybe even pre-depend on the hal package.)

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Networking problems
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Im having some big network problems all of a sudden
and am not sure why. This is running an up-to-date
Etch.
I dont do anything fancy.

Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze,
and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up
at
all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but then
again im not sure how to do this anyway.

I rebooted again, this time booting into 2.6.18-4-686
(instead of -5-), and wireless networking did come up
in the boot process. However the Network Manager
applet doesnt show this--its still reporting in grey
"no network devices have been found". But if I run
network-admin it
does show that eth1 (my wirelss) is running, and i can
get online.

I also did just upgrade with apt-get and i was able to
install 2.6.18-6, but even though this worked
correctly, i still dont get this option when i boot--i
only have -4 or -5 (and again, -5 doesnt recognize my
wireless).

What can i do to address this? I can give more error
messages if i know what to post. Again I dont want to
do anything fancy, I want this to "just work".

Thanks,

Jen


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