Thank you for commenting on this bug, there is no need to new comments
to confirm or describe the issue though, what is happening is a race
between the login settings manager and the session one on modern
configurations, now what needs to be done is fro someone writting a fix
to make sure the
Definitely related to SSDs. Installed 10.04 and 10.10 on HDD and SDD.
Occured only on the latter, in vanilla setup.
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1941): WARNING **: You can only run one xsettings
manager at a time; exiting
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1941): WARNING **: Unable to start xsettings
just had it on my dad's machine. No SSD here. Maybe SSDs make it only more
likely.
However, I did install a new graphic card (Nvidia GTX 570). Not sure if I had
it before, though.
Solved it with workaround described in #68
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I suspect this problem to be connected with the overall performance of
the computer. There is most probably a race condition between gnome
settings and gnome, because as far as all posts go it can be easily
fixed by waiting for two seconds before trying to load gnome settings. I
have many
There is no specific hardware (HD type, or processor, or graphic card).
It occurs on race conditions (on fast computers, or on slow ones). In my
case, I have a slow speed HDD (and affect by ext4 problems, it comes
even more slow) and the problem occurs with frequence.
Maybe it is a GDM bug, that
I also have this problem with my Lenovo W510 (i7, nvidia graphics, SSD) and
Ubuntu 10.10.
Using kdm instead of gdm seems to work for me.
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Having this problem. Q9550, Nvidia gfx, SSD. Sleep-workaround works.
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I also have the same problem.
Intel i7-620LM, OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, Intel Corporation Core Processor
Integrated Graphics Controller (in the i7). So this doesn't seem to be a
NVidia issue. The sleeping workaround didn't work for me (starting a
gnome-session without a gnome-panel nor metacity, but with
Same issue here,
I7, ssd laptop with Maverick AMD64 installed. ATi graphics card and
driver however.
[url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...on/+bug/652929]652929[/url]
looks like a duplicate.
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With NVidia GTX 285, Natty-64 bit, workaround #68 did really fix this theme
issue.
Confirming, it is a gdm bug.
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I have this problem in Toshiba Satellite M60-182 (Old) ATI X700 with open
radeon driver + compiz
Ubuntu 10.10
Changing themes and lots of reboots or logouts logins can periodically fix it.
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I don't think it is a duplicate. This problem never occurred for me in
10.04, but happens 100% in 10.10.
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This is the same as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634988
that is, you have too fast machines :-D It is indeed a GDM bug, which
should be killing the g-s-d process it runs before starting the user's
g-s-d process
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I have the same issue. Fresh Ubuntu 10.10 install, on a i3 laptop.
* NO nVidia products and no ssd-disk; Asus U31F:
http://www.asus.no/product.aspx?P_ID=OV45sT3DY56akobY
Sometimes it's the whole windows, sometimes it's just the panels.
Changing themes and lots of reboots can periodically fix the
i also have this problem.
#70 applied the theme , but after reboot the problem was back
fresh install Ubuntu 10.10
Nine-X7200
i7-980-X
Nvidia GTX 485M @ 1920x1080
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same problem for me: 10.10 64-BIT, clean install. #68 fixed it, thanks!
system: asrock p67, core i7-2600, kingston ssd.
meikor
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Marco: it might be a duplicate, but I can't be sure. In my case, and in the
case of most users who have initiated this thread, the bug *is* 100%
reproducible and can never be fixed with a re-login or reboot. So the
description for bug #574296 is an inaccurate description of my problem.
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Rodrigo do you have any clue about this one?
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This bug affects me too. It started affecting me yesterday, when I
upgraded my Core2 E6600 machine to Core i7 2600K. Ubuntu is installed on
an SSD, but the SSD is not new. There was no issue with Core2 + SSD.
I did a clean install (10.10 64-bit) and the issue persists. But unlike
many posters
I had the same problem in xubuntu 10.10 and the solution was to sudo
apt-get remove gnome-settings-daemon, not sure why that component is
installed in an xfce environment? I guess this is not a solution for you
guys here though...
Oh yes, I have the dreaded x58 + corei7 + nvidia 470gtx + SSD
This is effecting my machine as well. Brand new (Built Tuesday) with a
fresh install of 10.10 64bit. 2 out 5 times the my profile is affected.
Another profile which is default in every way has the same problem. I've
attached the xsession-error log from my profile.
Also, I have a 32-bit version
I was being affected by this bug, comment #68 has seemingly fixed the
issue for me.
System Details:
ASROCK P55 Pro Motherboard
Intel Core i7 860 @2.8Ghz
8GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM
nVidia Geforce GTS250 1GB
Crucial C300 64GB linked through Startech SATA-III 6Gbps Card
Wester Digital 320GB SATA-II
Hope
I see that this bug is low priority. I have just upgraded my hardware
to an i7 950 with Nvidia 460 card and SSD and done a fresh install of
10.10 64bit and this bug affects me. Since quite a few other people
will have upgraded their hardware now in the near future (Christmas?) I
hope that the
I'm also affected by this bug. I have a Core i7, an SSD and an Nvidia
Quadro FX 880M. Things looked good with the Noveau driver, but when
switching to the non-free Nvidia driver I get the ugly non-themed look.
The workaround in #68 seems to solve the problem, and the warning about
multiple
Also affected with a Core i7, an SSD and an Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
(proprietary driver). The workaround in comment #68 (sleep) fixes it for
me too. Here's two lines from .xsession-errors when it doesn't work
(with the workaround, these lines do not appear):
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1641):
I've had this problem on another laptop with a core2duo once as well. It also
uses a SSD.
So it does appear to be an SSD loading issue.
Something gets loaded to quickly and the core i7 makes it happen all the time.
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I've just had it happen on a new machine that does not have a SSD. It
is a fast Core i7 with two striped hard disks (Seagate Barracuda XT) and
an Nvidia 450 video card. The gnome-settings-daemon autostart sleep fix
did the trick.
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This bug affects me.
* Clean install of 10.10 amd64 Desktop (done Dec 10, 2010)
* ATI driver installed using the System-Administration-Additional Drivers (2D
Driver 8.78.30)
Hardware:
Graphics: ATI 5870
Hard drive: Intel X25-E
CPU: i7 950
RAM: 24 GB DDRIII
Notes: As noted above this appears
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Thanks for confirming that it's not a driver problem -- I took the
liberty to mark the nvidia-bug as invalid.
I also found a workaround: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615358
With that workaround, the GDM doesn't get themed, but the desktop shows
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I hit those bug as well (Core i7, SSD, P55, 8800GTX) -- but I don't
think it's related to the nVidia proprietary drivers: Even without those
drivers, on first booting after installation, I get grey GNOME default
panels.
Also note that everything works fine when I use a jfs partition on the
SSD,
@Henning
I must concur as well. I faced the same problem even with the nouveau
drivers. So I don't feel its related to the nvidia drivers as well.
I did install ubuntu on a SSD under ext3 as well.
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For the situation where gnome-settings-daemon is running fine after startup but
theme settings are not applied.
It seams this effect faster setups like Core i7 installed on SSD drives.
This issue is also reported in bug #625670 and bug #574296
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Post #68 resolves the theming issue for me, but cpu usage spikes such
that the OS is completely unusable. I don't know if this bug is causing
that or not, but I thought I would mention it.
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Paul, I also had this problem about large CPU spikes.
It's a known nvidia bug with the nvidia drivers found with the Additional
Drivers application in Ubuntu.
It can be fixed up by downloading the latest nvidia driver from nvidia's
website and installing that. :)
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to pfrenssen: do you care to expand why is this not a duplicate of
500417? I am currently running both 9.10 for which 500417 was reported
and 10.10 and for which 649809 was reported and the behavior, problems
and workarounds are exactly the same.
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If you wish.
#649809 (this issue):
- describes a problem in which the entire gnome desktop reverts to the default
theme on boot, except the theme selector window
- occurs only in 10.10, not in 10.04
- affects only systems which have a X58-chipset, proprietary Nvidia-driver, and
SSD-drive
- is
Actually, if you read through the comments of #500417 the scenario when
nautilus doesn't honor the theme is just one special scenario of that
defect and in the comments it is expanded that randomly either the whole
desktop or just the nautilus doesn't honor the theme.
I am on Dell Precision 5500
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 500417 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500417
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 500417
nautilus doesn't honor gnome theme
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I believe this is duplicate of 500417 and it is present at least since
9.10. I am running 9.10 and 10.10 and the behavior is exactly the same.
It happens 100% of the time after I do clean install of 10.10,
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 500417 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500417
Also #68 doesn't work for me, but #70 does which is the same workaround
which applies to the other defect as well.
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This is not a duplicate of 500417. Please unset the duplicate status.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 500417
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#68 fixed it, thanks Kenneth!
- is everybody there having the issue using a nvidia card with nvidia
binary drivers installed?
Yes the Nvidia (current version and version 173), Core i7, SLC SSD
combination (10.10 64) 99% of boots exhibit this problem. Alt+Print-
Screen+K does not help.
- do you
As per what Roger mentioned, I'm also experiencing this on an i7 with an
SSD.
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Have just re-installed a fresh copy of 10.10 up-to-date as of today. The bug
still effects me.
After applying Kenneth's fix (see comment #68) all is working well.
I've done a little digging around, and it seems there is no elegant way to get
it working.
I can't find an elegant way to get
I also have a SSD. So has my other laptop which has also a nVidia chip but uses
a Core2Duo instead of a Core i7 and works perfectly fine.
Looks like a problem with the combination of a SSD with the nVidia driver and
the Core i7.
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My machines affected were also i7. For my main machine the OS is on the
SSD while /home is on striped spinning media (similar throughput to SSD,
higher latency).
The sleep from comment #68 fixed it for me too. Looks like some sort of
race condition when loading things.
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I am seeing a similar problem with a new install of Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64
with Nvidia 173... drivers and two video cards. It does appear to be a
race condition, however the fix from post #68 does not work for me.
The problem can be reliably reproduced (or not) with the following
steps:
1. log in
there is no reason reinstalled gnome-settings-daemon should make any
difference. The disk speed should also not matter there, the error
indicates a setting manager is already running, could be due to saved
session or autostart entries. Do people having the issue use autologin?
Does it happen at
No autologin here. Yes, happens at every login.
I tried creating a new user, in case there was something wrong with my
user-specific settings, but no -- the problem affects the new user as well.
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No auto login here either. It happens 95% of the time.
Also the hack in #68 works for me and I haven't seen the problem since
applying it.
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No autologin. It happened at every login, except just once, on
approximately 30-40 logins.
Since I delayed the loading of gnome-settings-daemon with 2 seconds as
proposed in #68 the problem has entirely gone away for me. There is no
mention anymore of multiple xsettings managers anymore in
reading the bug again I've some extra questions:
- is everybody there having the issue using a nvidia card with nvidia binary
drivers installed?
- do you get the issue using nouveau?
- how did you install the nvidia drivers?
don't follow comment #70 suggesting to remove the nautilus gconf
I'm using the nvidia binary drivers. Also using them on 2 other machines
without SSD with no problems.
When I try to change the theme in the gnome-appearance-properties only
the titlebar theme will change. Starting the gnome-settings-daemon
doesn't help until I log out and back in again. And even
- is everybody there having the issue using a nvidia card with nvidia
binary drivers installed?
Speaking only for myself, yes.
- do you get the issue using nouveau?
Nouveau doesn't seem to have this issue, but it's very limited
otherwise.
- how did you install the nvidia drivers?
Yes on the nvidia driver. When I enabled the nvidia driver, that is when the
problem started. nouveau worked fine except it would not let me do any
resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 , which looked awful on my HD monitor. I
can also confirm that installing the nvidia proprietary driver via
I just did a fresh install and hit this problem. I did the fresh
install due to a new SSD disk and did not experience the problem with my
spinning disks with the prior install. (Yes I also have an Nvidia
card.)
Something similar happened at work where a guy did a fresh install on a
machine and
I also have an SSD so core i-7, x-58, nvidia driver, and SSD seem like a
common theme. I already did a clean re-install of 10.04 so i can't test or
post any logs, but I wanted to note the hardware commonality.
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There are plenty of men and women who know how to run this country right,
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This bug affects my system too. I'm also running an X58 chipset with a
Core i7 and an SSD boot drive.
The proposed solution in #54 does not help.
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I also face the problem with my SSD. On a parallel 32 bit Ubuntu installation
on an ordinary HD I don't have the Problem.
I'll try the suggestion in #54 an report if they succeed.
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Interesting, I'm not able to presently try that fix (#54), but it does sound
like there may be some hope.
I should add that I've also got a Core i7, X58 chipset, nVidia GeForce GTX 275,
and an SSD boot drive.
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Reinstalling gnome-settings-daemon didn't fix it for me. Neither did
the sleep trick.
I also have an SSD as the boot drive.
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I have posted mine at #28.
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I'll add my .xsession-errors later from home.
One thing I've noticed which is way more damaging is that the .xsession-
errors and .xsession-errors.old quickly fill up my home partition by
repeatedly logging the same error. After about 15 mins the 19 gig free
space in my home partition is gone
Ernesto. I'll try that fix at home this evening. I too am using an SSD
drive so sounds like it might be the cause.
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Here's my xsession-errors log.
** Attachment added: .xsession-errors
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Post #54 also doesn't work for me and I also have an SSD drive. Here's
my xsession-errors file right after logging in.
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those warnings are weird
** (gnome-settings-daemon:2469): WARNING **: You can only run one
xsettings manager at a time; exiting
it seems a settings manager is already running, do you get the same
issue in the guest session?
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I just quickly checked a guest session and the problem did NOT occur in
the guest session.
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Building on it being an SSD/race problem, I decided to add a delay
before gnome-settings-daemon would start. The relevant file that I
changed was /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop. I changed
the line:
Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
to this:
Exec=bash -c
Kenneth's workaround in #68 solves the problem for me.
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Guys, I must admit I jumped the gun a bit with my solution on #54. That
is not the real fix.
To tell if your problem is the race condition I mentioned run the
following 2 commands:
killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon
At this point, your theme should be applied properly.
Could people having the issue add their .xsession-errors there?
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#68 worked for me as well, also on ssd.
Strangly enough though the problem did went away for me at some point,
not sure when though as i used a kill/restart gnome-settings-daemon
startup application and harly use nautilus. I just noticed that right
click was right again and disabled the start
Strangely the problem disappeared for me. The theme was correctly
applied after the last 4 boots. I can't tell you what changed though. I
didn't attempt any of the above suggestions and just did daily updates.
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Small update: it seems the bug affects me if I select a theme other than the
default Ambiance.
If I log on into my session with the ambiance theme I can switch to a different
theme and it loads with no problems. Once I reset or log out however, next
time I log back in the but reappears :(
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Gentlemen, I bring great news!
It seems the problem we are facing has to do with the fact that your desktop
starts before gnome-settings-daemon does (the timing is off).
By following the tips on this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594010highlight=GTK+theme I
managed to fix my
Hi again,
I'm new to launchpad and I would like to ask how long it might take until
someone is assigned to a bug like this?
I'm asking because I have to decide if I have to go back to 10.04 or keep
waiting for a fix.
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I'd just go back to 10.04 if I were you. Wait, I am you in this case!
I already reverted back to 10.04 by way of clean install.
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Just to let everyone know that since installing Arch Linux with Gnome and the
latest nVidia drivers:
* I don't have the Gnome theme issue anymore (as I did when running Ubuntu
10.10)
* I don't get any random freeze-ups that last about 8 seconds (as I did when
running Ubuntu 10.04)
Here's some
I can confirm the same bug on a clean 10.10 install:
- Core i7 (950)
- nVidia Geforce GTX470
- Intel X58
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Sorry about not trimming the last post. I was wrong about KDE. I
installed Kubuntu 10.10 to see if it was a real solution. QT based apps
display fine with themes and fonts but anything gtk still has the same
problem even when gnome is not present. It does seem to be specific to
gtk based apps if
So it's specific to the Nvidia driver and Gnome or XFCE then. KDE is still
working fine without any problems.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Paul Wolfe
649...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote:
I just wanted to add that I can now reproduce this problem on an athlon
940, AMD 785G chipset, gts 250.
So
I just wanted to add that I can now reproduce this problem on an athlon
940, AMD 785G chipset, gts 250.
So basically every machine I have updated or clean installed 10.10 on
has had this issue.
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Same bug applies for me with a new installed Ubuntu 10.10.
Nvidia Gtx 460 and core i7.
I can reproduce the behaviour mentioned by Reason (killing and restarting
gnome-settings-daemon as root).
Changing to the the nouveau driver didn't fix the problem for me.
Haven't tried the crappy workaround so
I just installed KDE to see what happens when I boot into it. Everything
works fine in KDE except gnome applications. Firefox and Transmission
are still showing the same rendering issues, while Konqurer and all
native KDE aps show properly rendered fonts and themes. Also I cannot
load certain aps
I forgot to say Bug #652731 shows that this happens with XFCE too. So
the problem is related to both Gnome and XFCE, which means it can be
narrowed down to something that is common between those two desktop
environments and the core i7 x58 with newer Nvidia graphics card
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Same problem here. i7 920, 8800GTS640
To reproduce: Directly after fresh install wait for the hardware driver popup,
install nvidia-current and reboot: no theme
I also had the problem with the beta/rc which seems to have begun after
the xorg 1.9 update.
And i also seem to suffer from the high
Albert, I don't think they will *decide* not to repair the bug. It's a
pretty obvious one. It still seems to affect a small number of users,
though, so it might not get the priority we would like. But these sort
of problems often get fixed by the next release.
If you're still doing (re)installs
I have this bug too. I have seen multiple related problems with Core i-7
processors on x-58 MoBos with newer Nvidia cards, posted in other bugs
and forums. Sune Bredahl already mentioned his, but also these forum
post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9971971
Also, I just tried restarting gnome settings daemon and it gave the same
error, but did not change anything on reboot. I tried running it with
sudo, and my desktop theme changed instantly, so maybe try sudo instead
of rebooting if rebooting doesn't work for you.
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Same here killing and starting gnome-settings-daemon as root returned the theme
more or less.
Nautilus still looks bad and the indicator icons still remain as the were.
It does start to hog my CPU though (gnome-settings-daemon) and remains running
on a 100% load.
Killing the process does keep
I did notice occasionaly that the interface (compiz effects etc.) were
somewhat slower, which I don't think is normal on this class of
hardware. It improved somewhat after upgrading to the latest nVidia
driver, but it's still not as good as 10.04.
There may well be an underlying cause. Meerkat
I have almost the same problem in Xubuntu (Bug #652731) but here it is
xfsettingd not running (which means appearance settings cannot be
changed).
However if I boot from the live cd, everything works and xfsettingsd is
running as it should. I use the nvidia non-free driver also, but the bug
This sounds like a problem in the gnome-settings-daemon.
Marking bug as confirmed from the various members commenting about the
issue here.
** Package changed: ubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu) = gnome-settings-daemon
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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