)
There are no 2.6 kernels available for the current version of
debian-installer.
For expert mode, you would need to manually add DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low to your
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2004-09-06 19:25 /realboot/initrd.img -
boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-generic
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aboot has no problem with symlinks.
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Since this particular bug is caused by a *woody* version of a package
calling update-menus, it would probably be a good idea to revisit this issue
with the menu maintainer, however. I would encourage you to file an RC bug
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malfunction whenever it occurs) I would not worry.
This is not a wishlist bug; given the performance hit that unaligned access
causes on some architectures, this should probably be normal or even
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:09:55PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
No. Are you running busybox df for some reason?
Nope. The df I'm using is the one that comes with package fileutils
Version: 4.1-10 i.e. /bin/df
I'm running Debian testing. I don't know when this problem
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to compile alpha kernel on i386 (i
haven't more alphas).
The last time I tried, 32-64 bit cross-compiling did not work well
with gcc+binutils.
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. You could also try
the sarge pre-release images, which use a 2.4 kernel; the images can be
found at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer.
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, and it
certainly has to be set in the right place to have an effect. If you can
post the exact SRM and aboot commandlines that you use, someone might be
able to give you more exact advice.
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is 1033:0035, it supports both OHCI and EHCI under 2.4.27.
Didn't do any compatibility checks before buying it.
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are:
DS10L Slate
DS20L Shark (based on API's CS20)
A belated thanks for this, Jay -- the manual has been updated with these
missing models.
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there's really no reason to fuss over packages
in t-p-u until those autobuilders are available (and then it should be no
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:52:01AM +, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
Hmm, perhaps you're the first person who's actually tried to use prelink on
alpha?
Nope, guess not:
http://bugs.debian.org/223047
http://bugs.debian.org/276013
For my part, attempting
by
debian-kernel as well, since they're the ones responsible for kernel
maintenance -- you might also want to provide more information about the
specifics of your sound hardware, as I don't know if a reference to Miata
will tell them any more than it told me.
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sarge chroot with nothing significant installed at
all. Since prelink has already been dropped from sparc recently due to
critical breakage, it doesn't surprise me if the same is true on alpha.
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; but at least for fixing the future symlink management, you
can set link_in_boot = Yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
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However, this doesn't guarantee that libc's exposes the same behavior to
userspace apps with and without the LFS defines.
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issue, but I can't quite pin it down.
Any help would be appreciated.
A quick glance at the build logs for exim4 show a large number of warnings
about incorrect integer-pointer casts. Have you tried fixing those to see
if the problem is in there somewhere?
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:54:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:44:43PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:52:36PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
Any help would be appreciated.
A quick glance at the build logs for exim4 show a large number
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:34:40PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:37:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
The other factor at work here is probably that df is using the statfs()
function from glibc, whereas exim4 is using statfs64() due to the CFLAGS
settings
) AlphaServers DS10 and DS20, classified
as TSUNAMI. Does anyone know if this is accurate? This is relevant for
sarge because the TITAN class of systems is not supported by the prepackaged
Debian kernels owing to specific kernel load address requirements.
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(AFAIK) I'm
the only person on this list actively working on the alpha version of the
installer, filing a formal report with debian-boot is much more likely to
get you useful feedback than posting here, even in the case of
alpha-specific installer bugs.
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PC = 20010530
boot failure
This is a mailing list for discussion of the Debian GNU/Linux operating
system on Alpha-based systems. Since Linux does not run on the DEC 3000,
you may get better advice if you ask in an Alpha hardware forum or a
Digital Unix forum.
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reproducible on alpha; and the reference to upstream's
comments made it pretty clear that this wasn't readily fixable to run on
64-bit platforms due to some willful type mishandling mishandling.
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:29:58AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
... autobuild failed for some apprently system related reasons.
Please direct such requests to arch@buildd.debian.org.
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://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template.
These should tell us the exact nature of the aboot-installer failure.
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-Build until
2004 Sep 05 17:01:21; this looks to me like a buildd admin has already
noticed the problem and reset the package, giving it another shot at
building.
If this were not the case, you would have wanted to contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] about this problem.
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
Is there a special reason that ext2 is not a module?
Yes, ext2 is frequently used as the fs type for initrds themselves (at
least by debian-installer).
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* Steve Langasek wrote:
Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
Is there a special reason that ext2 is not a module?
Yes, ext2 is frequently used as the fs type for initrds themselves
(at least by debian-installer).
Any plans
on legacy Unix systems. On GNU/Linux, there are
some tools now (parted, for one) that don't cope well with full-disk
slices that overlap other partitions.
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other than
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installing.)
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on
/dev/sdb. Do you know how it was created?
However, I installed the current kernel-image 2.6.8 and
it booted fine with my system!
Good to hear.
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as /dev/sda? If so, you may want to
open a bug report against the kernel.
What does cat /proc/scsi/scsi show you?
Since sarge will not include support for 2.2 kernels when it's released,
I think figuring out this problem will be worth your effort.
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to
boot at the time to detect SCSI controller.
Yes, but a) this bug first showed up in 2.4.21, and b) it was
Debian-specific.
In any case, the bug has been resolved. Could you upgrade to a current
2.4.27 kernel package and verify whether you still experience this
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never seen this problem before (or even heard of it), and
I've been using XFree86 on alpha for years.
I've also not heard of any problems with alpha that would require
continued use of a 2.2.25 kernel; but do the glibc packages even support
2.2 anymore on most archs?
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-installer's handling of device names for
hardware RAID partitions. A fix has been identified, but is waiting on
alioth's subversion service to come back on-line before uploading.
This is bug #265597 in the BTS.
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contained the wrong kernel-image package.
This is fixed in the daily CDs.
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didn't make
it into sarge in time for the rc1 CD builds. So this bug will
automatically be fixed for rc2.
businesscard and netboot images for rc1 should be immune to this bug.
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:03:04PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-03 13:35]:
Trying to build plplot on alpha here fails with the following error:
dh_movefiles -a --no-package=libplplot9 --no-package=libplplot-dev
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, I've found time to take a closer look at this problem, and you're
right that it's related to configure. Specifically, it's related to a
buggy and unusable octave:
$ octave
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:37:28PM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:39:46PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:41:49PM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote:
Yes, one could have differently-configured kernels available via aboot
slots on a single netinst
hardware
configuration.
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to keep up with the present-day upload
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be appropriate for the project to solicit another alpha buildd beyond
escher and the new box.
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powerful machine will be
available soon.
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mimedefang 2.43 from going into testing.
The primary alpha buildd had a major hardware failure, and the backup
buildd is underpowered for the current package volume. I'm firing off a
manual build of mimedefang for you now.
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a 2.4.26 kernel? The 2.4.26-2.1 kernel now in unstable should have
fixed the PCI problems of earlier versions, but I have no idea whether
it will fix these SCSI errors for you.
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3.3? This is still the
default compiler version for sid and sarge.
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so?
Hand-built and uploaded.
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On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
Hi Andrew!
there is a build out from yesterday:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i
daily build has a particular
feature? (Aside from trying to install it yet again?)
Not short of pulling the image apart layer by layer, or asking someone
who knows.
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Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:36:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
Hi Steve!
ok, so what is the real functional difference?
That depends on what's being staged at any particular moment.
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
sarge
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:44:53PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote:
I don't see anything new at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:15:24PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
I tried the netinst-Version from 15th of Juli. The problem with the broken
cia_core seems still to exist
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:39:28AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote:
I used the one at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/
but I'll try again and leave some space at the top
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote:
I don't see anything new at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/
will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST?
Yes; and it's there now.
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On Jul 14, 2004
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
Hi Andrew!
there is a build out from yesterday:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040714/
But built against the sarge tree, not the sid tree.
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an initial ramdisk, you don't need autodetection working in
order to enable mirroring on the root partition. There is even support
for this in the Debian raid packages, in the form of mkinitrd hooks.
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to, as this is not yet handled automatically for you.
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it was on my Ipaq. I am thinking of using this alpha
with Sarge and migrating over from an athalon RHEL 3.1 server. I'm
getting sick of RH.
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The latency is all in human systems at this point.
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 05:55:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:16AM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
I've repeated the test with this new image and the qlogic-driver doesn't
fail anymore. When it comes
in depmod -- in reality they're
nothing more than a performance hit in a tool whose performance doesn't
really matter.
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This sounds like it's probably a kernel problem, not an aboot problem;
but the above will confirm whether this is the case.
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://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/ ?
This is on an LX164 system.
You may find that these kernels are necessary anyway on an LX164 system,
but this is unrelated to the problem you're currently fighting with.
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booting with ide=nodma make any difference for your IDE controller?
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kernel
didn't start (prolly because no qlogicisp compiled it), i'd like to try my
own build.
You are expected to use an initial ramdisk with these kernel images (as
with all 2.4 kernel image packages shipped by Debian).
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:16AM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
I've rebuilt and reposted.
I've repeated the test with this new image and the qlogic-driver doesn't
fail anymore. When it comes to initialize the network, it cannot
i can set the res via fbset (it works), but i wont set the
res when the runlevel x is starting. i want set it at boottime to see
the Tux logo in higher res.
Is your framebuffer support built into the kernel, or is it loaded as a
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:59:54AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:18:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Sorry for wasting your bandwidth on the broken iso. I'll post again as
soon as I have 2.4.26 working in d-i.
The busybox maintainer has kindly
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:04:27AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:59:54AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:18:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Sorry for wasting your bandwidth on the broken iso. I'll post again as
soon as I
requesting this, please?
I'd like to discuss with the maintainers of the linux-kernel-di packages
for other architectures before making such a change.
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:56:27PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:04:52PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Hello Steve,
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:59:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Thanks to Peter De Schrijver, I believe we've finally located the bug
that's
Nathan,
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:21:46PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
Thus spake Steve Langasek:
I will be preparing local debian-installer images based on these kernels
as well, which I should have ready this weekend, for those who would
prefer to test that way.
I've believe that I've
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:28:27AM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
Thus spake Steve Langasek:
You can now find both a cdrom-mini.iso CD image and a boot.img netboot
image under http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/.
Please test out whichever is appropriate and let me know how
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:24:17PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Yes, you're right, those images still have the old kernel on them. I've
bumped the requested kernel version in d-i and rebuilt, you should get a
2.4.26-1-generic
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:04:52PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Hello Steve,
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:59:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Thanks to Peter De Schrijver, I believe we've finally located the bug
that's made 2.4.2x kernel-image packages so horrible to use on such a
wide
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initialization code and not with the
qlogicisp driver. Even using their module didn't fix the SCSI
initialization problems I was seeing, and IIRC the code doesn't compile
cleanly in 2.6 due to kernel API changes.
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/cpuinfo.
I will be preparing local debian-installer images based on these kernels
as well, which I should have ready this weekend, for those who would
prefer to test that way.
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, I run sarge or sid on all of my personal machines.)
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-Original Message-
From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:51 PM
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: testing vs stable (was Re
the
package, the issue is precisely that getting updated packages into
testing in order to fix security bugs in as timely a manner as they are
fixed in stable is often more effort than package maintainers are
willing to invest. shrug
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. If you can get past this hurdle, there are lots of uses sarge can
be put to in the time leading up to its official release.
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whether the bug affects testing.
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selectable? If you switch to console #2, what do you get as output of
ls /dev/discs/?
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can't think of any reason why partman
would be unable to see partitions that the kernel is able to see. Where
did you download the version of the installer that you used here?
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-Original Message-
From: Cernese, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
. I have fallen way behind on this
project.
If you have a pressing need to get this box booting, you may well want
to give Red Hat a try here, as I can't promise any quick fixes for what
seems to be a kernel problem on your hardware.
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-Original Message
: no module by that name found
modprobe: failed to load module mdac960
Please check the spelling of the module name. Case counts.
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-Original Message-
From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:06 PM
To: debian
for the installer. Where does the uselessness
ensue?
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And lully's already caught up with this one, probably while I was in a
plane somewhere. :)
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know for sure the driver in question
is supported by the woody installer?
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the output from terminal 4 (ALT-F4) within the installer,
immediately after the error about the module loading?
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panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
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milo binaries for each of the alpha subarchitectures that
will be supported. If you can get this far, I can easily help you with
the rest of the integration process.
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