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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2834

Today's Topics: 

  Re: DHCP Client Won't Connect         [ Hal Vaughan  ]
  Re: which package contains avisynth.  [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]
  xorg 7.3 does not work                [ Magicloud Magiclouds  ]
  Re: debian ISO question               [ "s. keeling"  ]
  Re: .xsession-errors servicetype      [ "s. keeling"  ]
  Re: no x version                      [ Andrei Popescu 

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:03:17 -0500


From: Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: DHCP Client Won't Connect


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On Tuesday 20 November 2007, you wrote:

> On 21/11/2007, Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:
> > I have a default Sarge installation that I had to move to a new
> > network. It had been getting the address through DHCP with no
> > problem.  Now, on the new network, it tries to connect to a DHCP
> > server, but there's no connection.  I was not able to copy down the
> > messages because the
>
> [SNIP]

>
> > What could keep a Linux system from connecting to or receiving any
> > communications from a DHCP server?  Could they be doing something
> > with their server (likely on Windows) that would keep it from
> > acknowledging my Linux computer?
>
> AFAIK at this stage of network handshake nothing is likely to stop
> communication between the two machines (yours and win server) except
> if the dhcp server is set to allot IP's only to know MAC numbers. So
> that or cable is likely culprit if the settings on you machine are
> set to getting IP from a dhcpd server.
>
> Do post back if things get resolved.

D'oh!  (I say that as I smack my own forehead!)  The general rule with 
me is that the more likely I'll miss it.



Thanks, to both you and Andrew, for reminding me of what I should have 
thought of.  I'll check over the phone tomorrow with their people.  My 
only concern is finding the person in their organization with both the 
authority and the technical ability to change that kind of setting.


Do you need help?X

Would that be a setting on their router or on their Windows server?  My 
guess is it depends on whether my system is behind uses NAT.



I'll definitely post how this is resolved.



Again, thanks!



Hal



Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:06:20 -0600


From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: upgrade stopped at ownership error message

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tom arnall wrote:

> i just tried to do an upgrade and got the following messages:
>
> ----snip---
> Reading changelogs... Done
> Error: "/tmp/kde-klorovwp0rg" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
> Error: "/tmp/ksocket-klorobxLJlU" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
>
> and now the process is hung. what should i do?
>
> thanks,
>
> tom arnall
>
>   


If it's just a single-user box (and you're the single user), I'd just 
"sudo rm /tmp/kde-klorovwp0rg" and "sudo rm /tmp/ksocket-root" and "sudo 
rm /tmp/kde-root".



Or reboot (which will delete the contents of /tmp).


Do you need more help?X

I'd also keep in the back of my mind that this is slightly suspicious, 
but if it's just a personal workstation, I wouldn't think much more 
about it until and unless it happens again. Then I think I'd start doing 
a bit of forensics.



-- 
Kent


Date:  Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:37:21 -0500
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: which package contains avisynth.dll
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Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:

> The usual cure for this is to add the -playlist option:
> 
>     mplayer -playlist <file_to_play>
> 
> You do NOT need avisynth.dll.


The -playlist option works great! Now mplayer can play the npr radio
streams... yay! Thanks for all those who replied.

raju

-- 
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http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:55:33 -0600
From: Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: recommend a flatbed scanner
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Folks,

I'm looking for a decent USB flatbed scanner for use with my Lenny box --
and I don't want to spend much, $20-30 on eBay would be ideal. I would us=
e
it to scan photo prints and text documents.

Any suggestions for manufacturers or specific models, or pointers to good
resources to help me choose, would be very much appreciated. I don't know
much about scanners and would be happy to answer any clarifying questions=
.

Thanks,

Reid



Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:20:15 -0500
From: Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work
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On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> That looks OK to me.
>
> Which output do you get for these three commands:
>
> awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>

$ awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection
pbc@paulandcilla:~$ 
pbc@paulandcilla:~$ xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4      
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

pbc@paulandcilla:~$ 
pbc@paulandcilla:~$ xmodmap -pk | grep '(F[0-9]\+)'
     67         0xffbe (F1)     0xffca (F13)
     68         0xffbf (F2)     0xffcb (F14)
     69         0xffc0 (F3)     0xffcc (F15)
     70         0xffc1 (F4)     0xffcd (F16)
     71         0xffc2 (F5)     0xffce (F17)
     72         0xffc3 (F6)     0xffcf (F18)
     73         0xffc4 (F7)     0xffd0 (F19)
     74         0xffc5 (F8)     0xffd1 (F20)
     75         0xffc6 (F9)
     76         0xffc7 (F10)
     95         0xffc8 (F11)
     96         0xffc9 (F12)
pbc@paulandcilla:~$ 



> xmodmap

~$ xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4      
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)



>
> xmodmap -pk | grep '(F[0-9]\+)'

~$ xmodmap -pk | grep '(F[0-9]\+)'
     67         0xffbe (F1)     0xffca (F13)
     68         0xffbf (F2)     0xffcb (F14)
     69         0xffc0 (F3)     0xffcc (F15)
     70         0xffc1 (F4)     0xffcd (F16)
     71         0xffc2 (F5)     0xffce (F17)
     72         0xffc3 (F6)     0xffcf (F18)
     73         0xffc4 (F7)     0xffd0 (F19)
     74         0xffc5 (F8)     0xffd1 (F20)
     75         0xffc6 (F9)
     76         0xffc7 (F10)
     95         0xffc8 (F11)
     96         0xffc9 (F12)



-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459



Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:30:52 -0500
From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Which AM2 motherboard and chipset do you use?
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Douglas A. Tutty(dtutty@porchlight.ca) is reported to have said:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:40:08PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty(dtutty@porchlight.ca) is reported to have said:
>  > 
> > > For main board, I went with Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe: lots of SATA and USB
> > > ports, great sound (for me), etc.  It doesn't have integrated video but
> > > an Asus EN7300GT Silent cost $40.  Everything works with standard Debian
> > > Etch and stock kernel.  I choose to use the pre-packaged nVidia X driver
> > > for a bit better DVD playback but its only slightly noticeable on my 21"
> > > drafting CRT during movement; I don't know if it would show up on an LCD.
> > > The issue is the mpeg conversion: the nVidia driver does this in
> > > hardware whereas the nv driver does it in software and the result isn't
> > > as clear, especially if its deinterlacing/blending while showing
> > > full-screen.
> > 
> > A bit OT Doug but I have the same MB and I yesterday tried to get sound
> > working.  Sound does not show up in lspci.  What does your box show in
> > lspci?
> 
> Sound works fine for me (Debian Etch).  Remember to install:
> alsa-base
> alsa-utils


They are.

> 
> Read the man pages and run alsa-conf
> 

I started that but stopped when lspci said there wasn't any sound
hardware on the MB.


> Here's my lspci:  Sound doesn't show up there either.


Well that makes me feel much better.  Now I can read the man pages and
get it going.

Many Tnx!!

Wayne

-- 
User error: replace user and press any key to continue.
_______________________________________________________



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:20:13 +0800
From: Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: xorg 7.3 does not work
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Dear all,
    I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. Then 
I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as usual, 
`startx` failed, with message 'xinit: Server error.' and nothing more.
    I installed another box this morning, still the same.
    While another box which had xorg 7.2 and upgrade to 7.3 yesterday, 
works fine.

Thanks.



Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:24:55 -0800 (PST)
From: joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
>Tutty wrote:
>=20
>> After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
>and install what you
>> want:  exim4 and mutt for mail, lynx and perhaps
>links2 (does
>> javascript), and of course mc (midnight
>commander).  Finish off with
>> your editor-of-choice (I use vim).
>>=20
>> If you specifically don't want any X, I suggest
>strongly that you use
>> aptitude interactively so that you can go back and
>forth if you
> choose
>> something that wants to drag in X. =20
>
>The other thing I forgot to suggest is that you may
>find packages
>installed as part of base that you don't want
>either.  I find I can
> pare
>base down quite a bit.
>
>Doug.


thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i want it
with absolutely no x, the plan is to put it on an old
box to force me to learn the commandline better (i use
it as much as i can but i know that so much more could
be done with it), besides there is a nostalgia factor
of a terminal only box (it is what i cut my teeth on
so to speak, though that was a 286 DOS box). the
second thing is that it would be nice to see what all
you could do without the need for a clumbsy GUI (well
at least IMHO). the final point is that i am a little
supprised that no one has made a debian based terminal
only installation, but i guess being able to do it
using the netinstall disk may explain that (though i
would have thought that one would exist for those who
still exist in the world of dialup

jwlockhart

Registered Linux User #458799
this user is penguin powered


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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:26:08 -0800 (PST)
From: joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: no x version
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apologies for sending this twice, left the subject off
the previous one and wished to maintain the continuity
of the thread


>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
>Tutty wrote:
>=20
>> After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
>and install what you
>> want:  exim4 and mutt for mail, lynx and perhaps
>links2 (does
>> javascript), and of course mc (midnight
>commander).  Finish off with
>> your editor-of-choice (I use vim).
>>=20
>> If you specifically don't want any X, I suggest
>strongly that you use
>> aptitude interactively so that you can go back and
>forth if you
> choose
>> something that wants to drag in X. =20
>
>The other thing I forgot to suggest is that you may
>find packages
>installed as part of base that you don't want
>either.  I find I can
> pare
>base down quite a bit.
>
>Doug.


thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i want it
with absolutely no x, the plan is to put it on an old
box to force me to learn the commandline better (i use
it as much as i can but i know that so much more could
be done with it), besides there is a nostalgia factor
of a terminal only box (it is what i cut my teeth on
so to speak, though that was a 286 DOS box). the
second thing is that it would be nice to see what all
you could do without the need for a clumbsy GUI (well
at least IMHO). the final point is that i am a little
supprised that no one has made a debian based terminal
only installation, but i guess being able to do it
using the netinstall disk may explain that (though i
would have thought that one would exist for those who
still exist in the world of dialup

jwlockhart

Registered Linux User #458799
this user is penguin powered


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Can we help you?X

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:29:15 +0800
From: Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com>
To: Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: xorg 7.3 does not work
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Dear all,
    And mplayer under the working 7.3 crashed a lot.

Thanks.

Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

> Dear all,
>    I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. 
> Then I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as 
> usual, `startx` failed, with message 'xinit: Server error.' and 
> nothing more.
>    I installed another box this morning, still the same.
>    While another box which had xorg 7.2 and upgrade to 7.3 yesterday, 
> works fine.
>
> Thanks.
>

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:55:41 -0500
From: Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log
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Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:


> What happens if you just try running X alone, as in:
>
> # X &
>


The same thing happened running X directly

I am having problems even googling this. It seems like a very rare
situation and I am not sure what package is causing this so I am
conidering re-installing tonight. (it is a brand new install so only
time, not data will be lost)

I would however like to know what the issue was at least so I could file  b=
ug :-\
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:55:41 +0100 (CET)
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: debian ISO question
Message-ID: <slrnfk77hd.m0h.keeling@heretic.nucleus.com>

Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano@gmail.com>:

> 
>  im new to debian im looking which version should i download. i can see
>  the stable version is 4.0 but when i look for the ISO i only see
>  debian-4.0r1? is this the latest? or is it a release candidate?
http://www.debian.org/CD/

   "Latest official release of the "stable" CD images: 4.0 rev1."


>  another thing is im going to use deb for a web server? i just need to
>  get the disc 1 right(network installation is not an option for me :)
>  )?


Assuming it's a web server, it'll eventually be networked, yes?  Then,
you can add on anything CD1's missing from the repositories.  Or is
this a standalone development server?  You may need to pull down more
than CD1 somehow.  Sneakernet from a friend with a fast connection?

Do you know about apt-cdrom?  Since you're new to Debian, I recommend
wiki.debian.org for lots of great pointers.


-- 
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(*)    http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html      Linux Counter #80292
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:06:11 +0100 (CET)
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: .xsession-errors servicetype
Message-ID: <slrnfk7853.m0h.keeling@heretic.nucleus.com>

Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:

>  not sure what all this means, should I be worried?
> 
>  $ tail -50 .xsession-errors
>  kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/banshee.desktop' specifies 
>  undefined mimetype/servicetype 'audio/x-mpeg-3'
>  [snip]
>  kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'Graphics/ksquirrel.desktop' specifies undefined 
>  mimetype/servicetype 'image/bmp'
>  [snip]
>  Launched ok, pid = 9502
>  There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...
> 
>  Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
>         If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:
> 
>         /tmp/ksocket-pbc/Arts_SoundServerV2


Looks to me like your typical spew from KDE and Gnome about confused
library symbols, something tried to use sound and got confused when it
couldn't start the daemon (daemons *ought* already to be running,
shouldn't they?), then something else (reporting again through, or as,
kbuildsyscoca) complained when it tried to do something with bitmaps.

Dump kde?  Figure out where the installer failed you?  Is any of that
at all interesting in your position?  I'd just ignore it and
concentrate on what I can't do with my apps.  Once that's solved, the
errors should stop.  No, those errors are not worrisome to me.


-- 
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:10:28 +0200
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: no x version
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:43:33PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > If you specifically don't want any X, I suggest strongly that you use
> > aptitude interactively so that you can go back and forth if you choose
> > something that wants to drag in X. =20
>=20
> Nothing against doing it that way (interactively), but when running
> aptitude or apt-get on the command line you also get a very complete list
> of what actions will be taken, and can cancel the install and try again.
> To make sure that it (apt-get or aptitude) isn't going to go ahead and do
> the install/remove/whatever anyway, I usually use the -s (or -simulate)
> option before running the "live" command.


aptitude always shows a nice preview (coloured) where you can see what=20
packages are pulled in as depends/recommends and by what package. You=20
also get to look at the suggests and chose some to install. IMO this=20
beats the CLI anytime.


> I never have understood the reasons (haven't checked very hard), but it
> seems like apt-get normally gives an "are you sure?" prompt before doing
> the action, but sometimes it just goes ahead and does it.  Perhaps the
> no-prompt behavior is automatic if there aren't many/any dependencies
> to be hauled in or removed.  I don't have enough time on aptitude to
> know whether it does the same.


AFAIR it will not ask if you only install one package.

Regards,
Andrei
--=20
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:17:03 +0200
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Window Borders Disappear
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:42:09PM +0000, Jack Schneider wrote:

> Hi, folks
>=20
> I have lost my Desktop window borders. I am using Debian "lenny"=20
> updated. Problem occurred after an abortedattempt to install Compiz.. =20
> I get the following error from theSystem>preferences>windows menu..
> " Cannot start the preferences application for your window=20
> manager.Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration=20
> tool..
>=20
> Any help would be great...


How did you try to install compiz? Please detail your steps, maybe we=20
can find a way to revert what has been done.

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

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:06:59 -0600
From: Jack Schneider <puck@volunteerwireless.net>
To: Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Window Borders Disappear
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On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:26 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:42:09PM +0000, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > Hi, folks
> > 
> > I have lost my Desktop window borders. I am using Debian "lenny"
> > updated. Problem occurred after an abortedattempt to install Compiz..
> > I get the following error from theSystem>preferences>windows menu..  "
> > Cannot start the preferences application for your window
> > manager.Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration
> > tool..
> > 
> > Any help would be great...  J ack
> > 
> > 
> 
> Why don't you try aptitude reinstall metacity? That may work.
> 
> - -- 
> If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
> programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they
> restrict the use of these programs. 
>  - Richard Stallman
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Thanks, for the reply...  I did the  # aptitude reinstall metacity thing
and regretably no change...

It really makes it painfull to have all windows in upper left corner
with no size or position control... What could be plan b???

Thanks, again

Jack 



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:27:35 +0200
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: DHCP Client Won't Connect
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> guess is it depends on whether my system is behind uses NAT.


Whatever they use as the DHCP server. They could also be using some=20
managed switches and you are in the wrong vlan.

Regards,
Andrei
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(Albert Einstein)

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