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If the destination page is empty, the search bar portlet is temporarily unavailable

Issue When the default '/search' parameter from the destination page field is deleted, the search bar portlet becomes unavailable. Steps to reproduce: 1) Start Liferay DXP 7.2 with fix-pack-17 (previous fix pack was dxp-fix-pack-16). 2) Click on search portlet > configurations. 3) Remove...

The Layout table still contains database references for removed sites

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Issue Not all references to a deleted site are removed since entries in the Layout table that had the site's groupId are still present after the deletion is complete. Steps to Reproduce 1. Start a clean DXP 7.3 instance connected to a database (such as MySQL) 2. Create a test site...

Conflict loading libraries from the global classpath(tomcat-/lib/ext/)

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Issue Loading the libraries from the global classpath is conflicting with one of the Liferay's internal module Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)...

Specifications API is not supporting Upsert operations

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Issue Users are unable to add translations for title/labels in Specification API. Steps to reproduce: 1. POST a specification by using the Specification API endpoint (/o/headless-commerce-admin-catalog/v1.0/specifications) { "key": "demo-abc", "title": { "en_US": "Demo Specification ABC"...

Unable to add Products with Tags via headless API

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a product using POST /v1.0/products (Request is attached). 2. Execute the request and check the response. 3. Tags are showing blank and on Product UI, tags are not generated. Expected Behavior: Tags must be created while creating the product with tags...

Unable to add Products with Specifications via headless API

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Issue When a product is created with specifications, the 200 response code is received. But, on UI product is not visible. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a product by using the POST /v1.0/products (Request is attached) 2. Click on Execute. 3. Check the created product on UI. 4. Product is...

When the data for 'from address' and 'from name' are more than 50 characters, custom calendar notification templates cannot be saved

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Issue The notification template is not being saved Steps to reproduce: 1. Add a 'Calendar' portlet to page 2. Navigate to Calendar settings 3. Navigate to notificationtemplates tab 4. Edit 'from address' and 'from name' so that those fields have more than 50 characters together. For...

After installing a new portal with an AdvancedFileSystemStore document_library, the images aren't shown

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Issue After migrating, upgrading or installing a new portal with an existing database and document library folder using the AdvancedFileSystemStore the images and documents aren't accessible. Environment Liferay DXP (any version) Resolution After installing a new portal and copying the...

Liferay image fails to start with a javax.servlet.ServletException

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Issue My Liferay image is failing to start with the default settings. The following message is thrown in the logs: javax.servlet.ServletException: A servlet matching the filter (servlet.init.private=false)(servlet.type=friendly-url) is unavailable Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution A fix for...

Using $dateTool.toDate in a Velocity template does not return any date

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Issue In a Velocity template, trying to get a date using dateTool.toDate does not work as expected when using a locale different from default one. As an example, if under those conditions we have a Velocity template with below code #set ($dateStr = $dateTool.toDate( "EEE, dd MMM yyyy...

Adding all locales is exceeding the maximum characters

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Issue The below error is observed when Liferay DXP 7.4 is started with this property...

Files in the document_library folder are owned by the root user

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Issue After executing the portal with the Linux root superuser, some files and folders in the $LIFERAY_HOME/data/document_library folder are now owned by the root user and can't be accessed by the portal when running it with the original portal user (e.g. liferay). Environment Any...

Page .lar exports are failing to be imported due to a "DuplicateVocabularyException: A category vocabulary with the name topic already" exists

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Issue Page .lar exports from one 7.3 environment are currently failing to be imported in a separate 7.3 environment due to the following error: DuplicateVocabularyException: A category vocabulary with the name topic already exists Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Open a Help...

Unable to configure Outlook

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Issue Steps Followed: 1. portal-ext. properties: mail.session.mail.smtp.auth=true mail.session.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true 2. Navigate to Server Administration -> Mail Outgoing SMTP Server: smtp.office365.com Outgoing Port: 587 Use a Secure Network Connection: Uncheck Enable...

Product specifications are not getting created if not available on the portal

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Issue When specifications are not available on the portal. It's giving 500 Internal Server Error in the response body while creating the product via headless API. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a product by using POST /v1.0/products (Request is attached). 2. Below is the Request for...

Product status is not updating by using Patch API

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Issue PATCH API is not updating the status of the product workflow. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a product via headless API( request is attached). 2. Check the status of the product in UI ( It's showing as draft status). 3. Use the Get API for fetching the response of the created...

Audit modules is not starting after upgrade

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Issue After upgrading from Liferay Portal 6.2 to Liferay 7.2. The following audit module error is appearing. 2020-11-05 10:07:14.615 INFO [Start Level: Equinox Container: 69cf58a7-c02f-4bb9-a8ed-60445fa81573][UpgradeProcess:93] Upgrading...

Troubleshooting java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError and java.lang.ClassNotFoundException Optional Dependency Errors

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Issue When starting up Liferay, the following errors are observed: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError or java.lang.ClassNotFoundException. Environment Liferay DXP with deployed custom modules including optional dependencies. Resolution Review the deployed MANIFEST.MF inside the module or the...

Layout permissions lost upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2

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Issue After the upgrade from 6.2 to 7.2, several Layout permissions have been changed. Some pages restricted to the user Guest are accessible after the upgrade. There are rows in the ResourcePermission table with the value NULL on column primKeyId. It can be checked with the following...

Error handling LOB columns

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Issue We have developed a custom entity using Service Builder. One of the tables defines a LOB column. When we try to insert a record in that column we get following database exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.sql.rowset.serial.SerialBlob cannot be cast to oracle.sql.BLOB at...

Subfolder webcontent is not fetched with headless API

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Issue Step to Reproduce: 1. Create three basic web content. 2. Create a folder with two basic web content inside it. Now, total web content is 5 including. 3. Navigated to http://localhost:8080/o/api 4. Executed the API request with following API:...

"Unable to extend the HTTP session" WARN logs

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Issue These warnings are frequently found in the logs: Unable to extend the HTTP session. or Unable to extend the HTTP session. Review the portal property "session.timeout" if this warning is displayed frequently Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Fixpack 102+ Liferay DXP 7.1 Fixpack 25+...

INFO log traces with STARTED/ STOPPED information are not displayed when deploying a module if using WildFly/JBoss version 22.0.0 or higher

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Issue When a module is started or stopped, there is usually a log trace of level INFO showing that information. However, when using the application server WidlFly/JBoss with version 22.0.0 or higher, these traces are not displayed. Environment DXP 7.3 until Fix Pack 3 Resolution To show...

Some pages do not display properly when HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is configured.

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue When HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is configured in tomcat, some...

Intermittent performance issues caused by Journal Articles Display

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Issue After installing dxp-16, intermittent performance issues are being seen Thread dumps taken during the performance issue show a number of threads with a similar format: at java.util.regex.Pattern$Curly.match0(Pattern.java:4282) at...

Starting nodes concurrently can lead to incorrect module upgrades

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Issue Module functionality seems to fail after moving to a newer fixpack. After executing a system:check unsatisfied dependencies like the following appear: Component with ID 58 is unavailable due to missing required dependencies: service dependency...

Buttons inside SAML Admin not working

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Issue Add Identity Provider button of SAML Admin is not clickable. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3: Add below properties in portal-ext.properties file and restart the server:...

Interactive commands is not working properly in Gogo Shell

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Connect with Gogo Shell via command line. 2. Type 'disconnect' command. Expected Result: The following question must appear after typing the command "Disconnect from console? (y/n; default=y)" Actual Result: The question...

StaleObjectStateException for RedirectNotFoundEntryImpl

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Issue The StaleObjectStateException is appearing in logs for RedirectNotFoundEntryImpl. 2022-02-08 05:36:36.385 ERROR [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-157][I18nFilter:62] org.hibernate.StaleObjectStateException: Row was updated or deleted by another transaction (or unsaved-value mapping was...

Error using Service Builder when an entity has a BLOB field

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Issue We define the following sample entity for Service Builder <entity name="Documentos" remote-service="false" local-service="true" uuid="false" table ="REAJ_GESTION_DOCUMENTO" data-source="extDataSource"> <column name="id" type="long" db-name="ID" primary="true" id-type="sequence"...

NullPointerException when starting JBoss EAP server

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Issue After manually deploying Liferay on JBoss EAP, the JBoss EAP server can not be started due to the following ERROR [0m[31m08:50:29,397 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 80) MSC000001: Failed to start service...

Webcontent Images is getting removed after Patch Upgrade

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: Start the 7.1GA1. Create a structure add text, image, and number fields, and save. Create a template. Select the newly created structure and select the structure fields from the left sidebar by clicking on each field (text, image & number) then save it. Create...

NullPointerException/ElasticsearchConnectionNotInitializedException/ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when starting JBoss EAP server

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Issue After deploying Liferay DXP 7.3/7.4 on JBoss EAP server, the server can not be started due to the following error: 10:17:20,354 INFO 2022-02-17 10:17:20.308 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container: b091645f-c27f-4506-9dd2-ba5088937c54][Framework:93] FrameworkEvent...

JS and CSS files are loading only after page refresh

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Issue JS and CSS files in portlet are loaded only after refreshing a page Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Certain elements of the page may require regular navigation to work properly. In these cases, SPA must be disabled for those specific elements. Disabling SPA might help to...

Apache Felix Webconsole JS and CSS resources not loaded

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Issue Apache Felix Webconsole JS and CSS resources not loaded with 'org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet' Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server. 2. Download this: org.apache.felix.webconsole-4.6.4-all.jar from here:...

Upgrade fails after installing dxp-24 because of deprecated constructor

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Issue When running the upgrade tool after installing dxp-24, the upgrade can fail with the following error appearing in the upgrade logs: 2021-12-23 15:07:39.034 ERROR [Start Level: Equinox Container: d7a47fe3-6861-4df8-8478-363e9f54c836][VelocityTemplateResourceLoader:93] bundle...

java.sql.SQLException: Connection is closed error is continuously written to the log file.

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Issue The error "java.sql.SQLException: Connection is closed" is continuously written to the log file. Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Connection is closed at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyConnection$ClosedConnection$1.invoke(ProxyConnection.java:468) at...

FreeMarker template com.sun.proxy.$Proxy975.getLatestArticle(long) error triggers

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Issue Below "FreeMarker template com.sun.proxy.$Proxy975.getLatestArticle(long)" error triggers and this gets resolved after clearing the server cache from server administration. The property "direct.servlet.context.reload " is disabled. 2021-08-18 20:14:26.885 ERROR...

Custom captcha validation using CaptchaUtil fails with error "Captcha Validation Failed"

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Issue Custom captcha validation using CaptchaUtil API fails giving "Captcha Validation Failed" error in logs when having below code in jsp file: <liferay-captcha:captcha url="<%= captchaResourceURL %>"/> Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution From Liferay DXP 7.3 the attribute urlis...

"log4j:configuration" must match

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Issue Why does the warning "log4j: configuration must match" trigger? 2021-08-12 23:34:41.354 INFO [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1587] Starting initial bundles log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 33 and column 23 log4j:WARN The content of element type "log4j:configuration" must match...

Liferay and application server logs are not capturing

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Issue The Liferay log and application server log are not capturing the stack trace. And the size of these files is 0 in size with 3 to 4 lines of the log being traced. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Please Note: The following procedures and unofficial links involve customization,...

"Going to buffer response body of large or unknown size" warning triggers

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Issue Why does the below warning trigger? 2021-08-18 20:14:27.334 WARN [ajp-nio-8009-exec-795][HttpMethodBase:185] Going to buffer response body of large or unknown size. Using getResponseBodyAsStream instead is recommended. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This error says not to...

Liferay cluster works when truncating the crashed jgroupsping entries. Why does this happen?

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Issue When recreating the pod during the pod start-up stage, clustering doesn't work properly, and the below error triggers. But, the Liferay cluster works perfectly post restarting the pods by truncating the entries in the JGroupsPing tables. Why does this happen? -0-58215:...

Data providers lead to NPEs during a DXP 7.0 to DXP 7.2 upgrade

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Issue A Data Provider configured in DXP 7.0 can lead to NullPointerExceptions when upgrading to DXP 7.2 Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.0 server 2. Navigate to Forms -> Data Providers -> Add REST Data Provider 3. Fill out the Data Provider and Save 4. Shutdown the DXP 7.0...

Log4j warnings after upgrading to Fix Pack 15

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP 7.2 to Fix Pack 15, the following warnings and error are printed in the logs on startup: log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 3 and column 30 log4j:WARN Document root element "Configuration", must match DOCTYPE root "null". log4j:WARN Continuable parsing...

During a two-way SSL handshake, an exception is thrown

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Issue During a two-way SSL handshake, the following exception occurs. javax.net.ssl|WARNING|DC|tomcat-http--46| EDT|SSLSocketImpl.java:1428|handling exception ( "throwable" : { java.lang.NullPointerException at org.bouncycastle.crypto.signers.PSSSigner.generateSignature(Unknown Source)...

Upgrading From Fix Pack 8 to 11 Failed Due To NPE

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Issue After upgrading from fix pack 8 to 11, the portal starts up with NPE. 2022-01-06 12:42:49.469 ERROR [default task-1][MainServlet:1168] com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException: java.lang.NullPointerException ...... Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

TypeError: str.indexOf is not a function error is encountered while doing `gulp-upgrade`

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Issue While upgrading Liferay themes from Portal 6.2 to 7.2, the following error is coming. bash-4.4# gulp upgrade [20:01:07] Using gulpfile /home/node/devcenter-theme/gulpfile.js [20:01:07] Starting 'upgrade'... ? We recommend creating a backup of your theme files before proceeding. Are...

java.lang.RuntimeException: com.liferay.portal.lpkg.deployer.LPKGVerifyException: LPKG validation failed

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Issue Why "LPKGVerify RuntimeException" triggers? SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.liferay.portal.spring.context.PortalContextLoaderListener java.lang.RuntimeException: com.liferay.portal.lpkg.deployer.LPKGVerifyException: LPKG...

"The activate method has thrown an exception java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException:" reported for bundle com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.generator.impl when starting server

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Issue "The activate method has thrown an exception java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: + {path}" reported for bundle com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.generator.impl when starting server. 2021-12-23 05:46:17.220 ERROR [main][WabGenerator:93] bundle...

Options are not available to configure while selecting the "Remote Cluster Connection ID"

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Issue After portal upgrade, when updating the elastic search in DXP 7.3, options are not available to configure while selecting the "Remote Cluster Connection ID". And the below error triggers at the same time span when this activity is performed. 2021-09-15 01:57:37.319 ERROR...

Unable to create a SAML certificate using Document Library Keystore Manager

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Issue Unable to create a SAML certificate using Document Library Keystore Manager with Google Cloud Storage There was a problem loading the SAML Keystore. Please contact your system administrator. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The observed behavior is a known issue LPS-146269...

Some management toolbars do not display the stored display style

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Issue Changing the display view when in the People section does not remain if you navigate away to a different page. Steps to reproduce Start a clean bundle of Liferay DXP 7.2. Go to People -> Memberships and change the view from "Cards" to "Table" Go to People -> Teams, and then back to...

When entries in the jgroupsping table are not removed, clustering does not always work properly

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Issue With two Liferay 7.2 SP3 nodes, configured unicast clustering. However, it has been observed that clustering does not always work properly and that the cluster returns to normal operation when the entries in the jgroupsping table are deleted. The following errors have been...

Why aren't Headless API calls working after I change the Root context?

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Issue I changed Liferay's root context to a custom context, and now headless API calls are returning "access denied" errors. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution This issue is fixed by LPS-143355 Additional Information Read more about Headless Delivery , content:...

Why are Exports Slow In a Site With a Large Number of PDF Documents?

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Issue When I attempt an export of a site containing a large number of PDF documents in DXP 7.3, the export takes a very long time. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution This issue is resolved by LPS-142761 Additionally, the following workaround speeds up export time: On the export screen,...

Liferay fails to start up after installing fix pack

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Issue After installing a fix pack, sometimes the environment may not start back up and will encounter the following error: 10-Nov-2021 18:14:07.441 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to...

Cannot start up server after applying a new patch

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Issue After installing a new fix pack / hotfix, the portal is not starting up, even though the temporary folders have been deleted. 06-Dec-2021 13:15:32.439 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener...

Liferay fails to manage unique session and displays the mismatched data of the users

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Issue Liferay fails to manage unique sessions and displays the mismatched data of the users when using the below code ThemeDisplay td = (ThemeDisplay) renderRequest.getAttribute(WebKeys.THEME_DISPLAY); User user = td.getUser(); String clientId = user.getScreenName().toUpperCase();...

Service "com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.DestinationFactory" is unavailable

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Issue What does this error mean? When it will occur? 2021-07-21 00: 02: 06.207 ERROR [ServerService Thread Pool - 111] [ServiceProxyFactory: 109] Service "com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.DestinationFactory" is unavailable in 60000 milliseconds while setting field "...

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