BackSpace Key

1998-03-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X.
Now it acts like a [Delete] Key.
This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/
directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks,
Timothy



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POP3 Client..

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X?
Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...?

I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain
in netscape mail).
I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps.

Thanks,
Timothy


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SCSI changes Interrupts?

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just got my Adaptec 152x SCSI adapter to work However, two weird
things happened in the process that I wonder if anyone could shed some
light on

Firstly, before I got it to work, cat /proc/interrupts reported my PS2
mouse as being on IRQ 8,  "SoundScape" as being on IRQ 10, and had no
listing for "sound". After I got it to work by setting the jumpers on
the  SCSI adapter to IRQ 9, and giving the kernel the appropriate
parameters at boot time, cat /proc/interrupts reports the PS2 mouse on
IRQ 12, "sound" on IRQ 5, and does not list  "SoundScape" any more.
(The SoundScape support in the kernel is configured to use IRQ 10 for
MIDI, and IRQ 5 for "Audio"... (DSP?)).
Any ideas on the discrepancy?

Also, before it started working,  I tried setting the IRQ jumpers on 11.
(Not listed as in use by /proc/interrupts at the time), however, at boot
time, it failed to initalize that IRQ, and suggested that it might be
wrong..  So, after that I tried IRQ 9, (also not listed as in use),
which worked.
Any ideas on why it wouldn't work on an interrupt not listed as in use?
I suspect my /proc/interrupts is abit crazy, because even now that it
doesn't show the SoundScape on IRQ 10 any more, it still initalizes fine
on that IRQ at boot time, and I can still play mp3s fine. :).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter,
Timothy.

PS: I use aha152x=0x140,11,7,1 at boot time now. Can anyone fill me in
on what the '7' and '1' are about?  The SCSI howto used them, but I
couldn't find anything on their significance.


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Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs?

Thanks,
Timothy

> Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see
> exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not
> the same interrupt as another card.
>




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Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
> >different sort`s of errors? Or always the same?
> >is libpaperg installed and configured?

Yes, I have the newewst libpaperg installed: Aside from the error I get
when opening gziped ps/eps/pdf files, which I presume is a separate
problem, all the errors are the same A4: Unknown papersize thing.

One thing I noticed, in the gs man page, it lists the valid paper sizes.
'A4' is not on the list, just 'a4'.
I looked in some of the ps files and they had 'A4' papersize set. - If
this is the problem, what sort of workaround might I beable to do? Would
I have to do a search & replace of 'A4' with 'a4' in every ps file I want
to read?

Thanks,
Timothy




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GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6.
Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in
GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as:
Unknown paper size: (A4).
Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow.
Unexpected interpreter error -17.
Error in object: dup
in dup
and then lots of hex numbers..

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Timothy.


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Modem Problems....

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to setup debian on another computer:
The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1.
I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to
initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial.
Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and get the
modem to work?
Thanks,
Timtohy.


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Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi,
I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before
I was using the old ones from Bo).
Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says:
sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory
sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory.

Where can I get this pager thing, or whatever is required to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
Timothy.


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Enlightenment Stuff.

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone gotten Enlightenment & related apps (ImLib, eMusic, ePlus,
eTerm, etc), to compile properly on their debian system?
>From what i've seen RH5 people seem to beable to compile E-stuff fine,
while they give trouble on other distributions.
I'm wondering what the RH5 people have that i'm missing: On my Hamm
system, ImLib compiles fine, but none of the other Enlightenment things
or Enlightenment itself will compile.
Any ideas on what RH5 might have over my Debian Hamm, and how to fix it?

Thanks,
Timothy.

PS: Are there any plans to debianize Enlightenment now that it's in
beta?



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Sound & Modem on one ISA Board?

1998-02-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
A friend of mine would like to install Linux; he has a board by creative
that has both sound and modem on it.
Might linux have a problem with this - Is there any reason why it
mightn't work properly with a single board for music & modem?
(It's not one of the IBM DSP things).
Or better yet, has anyone been able, or unable to get one of these to
work?

Thanks,
Timothy.


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Netscape 4.0 Bus Error Fixed, New Linux Distribution....

1998-02-15 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Just a note for others who have been experiencing the Netscape Bus Error
bug when attempting to view Java Applets;
I just upgraded to X-Suse (Matrox), in an attemt to get X-Anim to work
better, and inadvertently 'fixed' Netscape.
I can run all Java applets I encounter just fine now; (previously any
applet caused netscape to crash with a bus error).
And they run faster than Netscape 4 for Windoze to boot! :).

Also, I just noticed a new linux distribution: "stampede" linux. -
www.stampede.org.
They claim that the reason for their distribution is to have one which
new users will beable to use easily, and which power users will think is
'awesome'.
What do ya'll  think about this?

Timothy



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Xanim.....

1998-02-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Thanks for everyones help with the PPP problem. It's fixed now. :).
I recently installed the XAnim package; I've tried playing AVI,MOV and
MPG files.
All of them play black & white, criss crossed with lines, and distorted
with multiple outlines of the animation at different offsets.
When I add the +b option, or various other options suggested in the
xanim man page, it plays b&w with only vertical lines and no distortion.

However, I can't get it to work any better than that. Any ideas?

I have a Matrox Millenium 4MB video board with the regular
SVGA X-server.
I'm Running X at 1152X864, 24bit color.
My X is still libc5 although I have upgraded to libc6.

Thanks in advance!
Timothy.




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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates
with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing.
The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword -
in it, just like mine.

The PPP.log says:
Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
   ]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5d < 0b 04 07 00>]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5d 
< 0b 04 07 00>]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5e]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5e ]

Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5f]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5f ]

Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x60]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x60 ]

Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61]
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 ]

Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Modem hangup
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connection terminated.
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Exit.

I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the server is sending Config
Requests, and his computer is Rejecting them.
This may be related to what I asked about first, when it said it couldn't find
the authentication files.

Any ideas?
Thanks alot!
Timothy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP
> > as me, so I set it up just like mine...
>
> Does he dial the same number you do?  Some isp's use different arrangements
> on different servers.
>
> > ...so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
> > CHAP auth that the server wanted.
>
> That isn't what +chap does.  +chap tells pppd to demand that the server
> authenticate itself to you using chap.  It won't do so, of course.  Take
> the +chap out.  The server will ask for chap authentication and pppd will
> know what to do.
>
> > ...it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that I made.
>
> That is a bit puzzling.
>
> > The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase,
> > but it still does the same stuff.
>
> Chmod it back.  pppd runs suid root.
>
> > I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing.  Any ideas what it
> > could be?
>
> Send me copies of the files and I will try to help you.
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI




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Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi,
I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same
ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine.
It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect),
so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
CHAP auth that the server wanted.
Now when I start pppd, it says. Peer Authentication Required, but no
authentication files accessible. - I presume this means that the problem
is that it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that
I made.
The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase,
but it still does the same stuff.

I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing.
Any ideas what it could be?


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Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-09 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Sounds like a dooable crack.

I see a cron.daily, weekly & monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it,
which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively.
I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron & cron tab manpages,
but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I can't find any howto's on
this either. :(.

Any pointers to doc files, (or actual help:), on this subject?

Thanks,
Timothy

> And about the & hours disconnect/connect thing: You could kill pppd with a
> cronjob, but this is rather a bad idea (in the case you are doing a
> download at this moment :-). Maybe using diald is better. Never used it
> though.
>
> Ciao,
> Martin




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Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi,
I would like to setup my system to do two things.
To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial
my isp if it has.
And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if
you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively).

What would be the best way to go about implementing this, and how should
I start going about it?

Thanks alot!
Timothy


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Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-06 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up
script using mlddc.
I have the line "(mlddc &1) >> /var/log/mlddc" as specified
in the readme file in ip-up.
However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the
/var/log/mlddc file is empty.
When I type that exact line on the command prompt it registers fine and
the /var/log/mlddc file has the registration info appended.
I tried chmoding everything in my /etc/ppp and all contents to 777
incase something didn't have enough permissions, but there was no
difference.

Any thoughts on why it will work on the command prompt and not in the
script?

Thanks,
Timothy.



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CircleMUD

1998-01-31 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup.
It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died.
Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message?

Thanks, Timothy
BTW - Does anyone know of any bininaries of mud servers & worlds
available for Linux?


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Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN  must find as
described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied
indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm.
I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing.
Does anyone run applets successfully in NSN4 under a dual libc5 & libc6
system?Thanks,
Timothy.

> > Mine works fine.  I'm running full hamm, how about you?
> >
>   Works fine here too, full hamm.
>
>   For those who are having trouble, you need to set the environment variable
> MOZILLA_HOME to the path where netscape is located.  On my machine, it is
> located in...
>
>   MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape
>
> 
> Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> voice+fax; +46 035 217194
>




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Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it
seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND,
(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull
reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem.
So! Will anyone who's NSN4 will do Java applets properly please
respond to this, then maybe we can figure out what those of us whose
Java does not work have missed.

Thanks,
Timothy


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SO4, dpkg

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi!
I just downloaded the StarOffice4 tarball from ftp.stardivision.de,
and installed it fine. However, it generates segmentation faults and
crashes with what appears to be complete irregularity. I installed it
onto /usr/local/Office40 as root. (It seemed to want to install onto the
home directory of what ever user I was logged in as, but I thought that
was abit ridiculous since it would mean repeated use of 100 or so MB).
Also, much of the time when I install new packages with dpkg, at the
end of the install and config it says
Unknown function multi
-f: Aborting
Unknown function multi
-f: Aborting
and then stalls.

Any ideas on either problem?
Thanks,
Timothy



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Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I had been installing the StarOffice3.1 deb package as root, so I tried to
redoo it as a regular user, but dpkg said I needed superuser priviliges.So,
I tried untarring the tarballs manually according to the mini-howto, but I ran
into the same Server Crash no 11 problem when I tried to do the setup script.
I was wondering if it could be my libc5 or xpm, ( I have libc 5.4.38 (the newest
on debian.org, unstable/base) and xpm4.7 3.4j-0.5), but the FAQsaid that you 
get a
specific error message if your libc5 isn't good enough; which I didn't get, so I
doubt it.
Did you have to do anything special to get your manually untarred 3.1 to 
work?

Timothy

PS - This is very depressing, this is the first thing i've been trying to do 
under
linux that hasn't worked.
I think I'll go get version 4 just to see if it works. :).

> Error no. 11 is a subject for a thesis, but the jist of it is that
> memory is trying to be accessed which is not properly provided for.
> This can be the result of a number of things such as bad code,
> overclocked processors, and it may even be intentional.  (Because I
> doubt you want to become a developer right now, I'll skip the debugging
> hoopla, although ideally that would be a Good Thing.)  One reason it
> may be intentional is that one cannot install staroffice as root--any
> attempt to do so will intentionally dump core.  The reason is that like
> some other programs which are intended to be networked, it is
> considered insecure to give superuser status to apps which could be
> heisted by a hacker.  There are several ways this can occur, I believe
> one such type of attack is called buffer flow overrun, which is
> essentially what it sounds like.  Anyway, make sure you're NOT root and
> see if that helps.
>
> > This time I ran the script, and it crashed the X-Server again with the same
> > error, but the script didn't give any error messages.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks!
> > Timothy
>
> Remember that while I do have a functional staroffice3.1 installation,
> I haven't used the .deb myself.  Before you criticize me for
> recommending that, let me explain: I spent FIVE MONTHS (no joke) trying
> to get staroffice to install using manual tarball and rpm methods, and
> finally I got a working installation.  Then I installed Debian, and at
> about the same time I started hearing reports that the .deb script
> worked very well.  Since that time (several months) I've not heard a
> single report of any difficulty, thus my recommendation. Meanwhile, my
> StarOffice installation is on /opt which I merely set in /etc/fstab to
> be booted automatically, so I just copied some user configuration files
> with filerunner from my old installation, and I was ready to go.
>
> Also remember that any large application with static motif libraries
> will likely have a performance impediment--it's not terrible with
> staroffice, but is noticeable. Version 4.0 is not linked against motif,
> and the performance is much improved.  Also, the 4.0 installation is
> wizardly simple, fast, smooth, and flexible.  Also, version 4.0 has
> nicer appearing fonts.  In my opinion, version 4.0 is worth waiting
> three weeks for.
>
> I suspect that any further questions regarding this particular case
> will exceed by ability to knowledgably respond, so my recommendation
> would be to accomplish what you can with what I've given you and then
> post the list for soem more qualified help.  But if I can be of any
> real help, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> --
> David Stern
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch.
I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was
mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I have
no idea how to enable the portmapper that the FAQ said I had to do. Where do
I start with this?
Then I went to run the setup script, (which was annoying; I couldn't find it
because dpkg -L staroffice3 didn't list staroffice as owning it).
And  big install-sheild style window comes up with a smaller window in it that
never got a chance to paint because the Xserver died, saying it caught error no
11. The script gave the error that my environment wasn't setup, so I rebooted,
and set my XPPATH variable as suggested in the FAQ.
This time I ran the script, and it crashed the X-Server again with the same
error, but the script didn't give any error messages.

Any ideas?
Thanks!
Timothy


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ICQ for Java

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone got ICQ for Java to work?
Mine goes fine until it has to contact the ICQ server for creating a new
account, whereupon it gives a warning message and then gets stuck in
some kind of a loop between the warning message and the last page of
info to fill out. It also screws up when I try to register an existing
account; it says error contacting the server, but that message comes up
so quickly that I don't think it actually tries.

Timothy


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Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi!
I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs
with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!).
When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1.
But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of
staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how
I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else?

I could just install the .rpms with RPM, because RPM seems to have an
option to set destination directory, but the rpm man page says I should
use Alien for .rpms unless "you know exactly what your doing"...
Could I break anything by using RPM to install it?

Thanks!
Timothy


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Kernel Modules...

1998-01-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
of messages about not being able to find the old modules.  Is there any
easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
boot-time so it doesn't do this?

Thanks,
Timothy


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Re: deb package format

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or
Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only
RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says
/usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found
/usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: ambiguous redirect
and stops.. The RPM package doesn't work either.
Any ideas on how to fix those errors?

Timothy


John Spence wrote:

> I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a
> software author.  There seems to be a growing trend for linux package
> developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format.

> The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide
> (Turbo C like environment for GCC) author's sites.
>
> Both sites had versions of their latest packages in rpm format. Is there,
> or should there be an effort to Debianize packages and provide the authors
> with a .deb package to make available on their sites?
>
> I know that 'alien' can install rpm files and in fact I did use alien to
> install both of the packages I mentioned.  This might not be common
> knowledge to people who are making the dreaded "which dist should I use?"
> decision.
>
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Netscape 4.04 bug / problem?

1998-01-04 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer.

When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like:
netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor'

The messages are all something about Java or JavaScript..
Then, any time I go to a page with a Java applet, all my netscape
windows just vanish.

Does this happen to anyone else?  Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks,
Timothy


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