Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:54:16 +0000
From: Tor Sigurdsson
On 18-Nov-00 Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
Hi,
To solve your problem, send the output of the following:
cat /etc/printcap cat
and
ls -lR /var/spool/lp
Here is the output of cat /etc/printcap
### BEGIN apsfilter: ### ljet3 a4 mono 300 ### # Warning: Configured for apsfilter, do not edit the labels! # apsfilter setup Sun Nov 12 23:34:03 CET 2000 # ascii|lp1|ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300|ljet3 a4 ascii mb ono 300:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # lp|lp2|ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300|ljet3 a4 auto mono 300:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # raw|lp3|ljet3-a4-raw|ljet3 a4 raw:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ljet3-a4-raw:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # ### END apsfilter: ### ljet3 a4 mono 300 ###
In my system I do not have any /var/spool/lp file. There is a /var/spool/lp1, which is apparently empty. This is the output:
/var/spool/lp1/: total 0
This may be the result of my attempt to install the printer again, as the SuSE support suggested me to do.
I have also these permissions for the /usr/spool/locks:
ls -lR spool/locks lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 feb 7 2000 spool/locks -> ../lock
that are wrong.
Many thanks for your help. I am seriously considering to abandon SuSE and install RedHat. It seems better documented. Besides that, I tried to tell to these folks of SuSE-Italy that, as a university professor, I have a remarkable influence in the choice of OS, and i was suggesting SuSE -- but they are apparently ignoring the point: one pays for support!
Thanks again, Guido, from Genova, Italy
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Message-ID: <3A27A481.1874C6A5@gplvpartners.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:15:45 +0000
From: Stefano Papini
I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
This list (although wonderful) is sadly THE ONLY SUPPORT AVAILABLE IN ITALY for SuSE. The italian distributors I experienced didn't give ANY added value and so keep on doing the italian translations. Again I think of a marketing issue! I already stressed these facts since 5.3 and obtained only a lot of quarrelling from some really unpolite guy supposed to work on translations. So, I only buy english versions. Regardless of typos, Italian version seem to be written by somebody totally external to tech subjects. Best regards, Stefano <p>Guido Milanese wrote:
Dear listmembers,
a couple of weeks ago I posted a request concerning my problems of printing after upgrading to SuSE 7.0 (I would NEVER do it again! how many troubles for nothing more!). I waited before writing again to you, because I sent again a help request to SuSE. Since I had no answer, I take again the liberty to ask you if you can help me -- a computer without a printer is almost useless!
As suggested by some kind listmembers, I installed again the printer using Yast2. The "Hello wourld" page comes out correctly. Then the pritner (a very common HPLj3) is apparently installed correctly. But after that, what I get after trying to print with
lpr -Pprinter1 moglie.txt
is no printout and this message:
lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank: 2nd.
"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe".
A lpq command outputs :
Local printer 'printer1' on pentiumiii.miarete: Warning: queue is not active (no server present). Rank Owner Pr Job Host Files % Form Size Time 1st guido X 1 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:09 2nd guido X 2 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:19
what on earth is happening? This "printer1" is the default name given by Yast2. I did not change it because I have only one printer, can call it with any name. But why "no server present"? Should I delete all of the contents of the spool directory? Or should I install everything from scratch?
I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
Best regards, and thanks anyway! g.
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This list (although wonderful) is sadly THE ONLY SUPPORT AVAILABLE IN ITALY for SuSE. The italian distributors I experienced didn't give ANY added value and so keep on doing the italian translations. Again I think of a marketing issue! yes, me too.
I already stressed these facts since 5.3 and obtained only a lot of quarrelling from some really unpolite guy supposed to work on translations. same happened to me. i think that if i will still use SuSE (which I doubt very much) I will but on the Internet the Engish version or the German one.
cheers,
g.
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From: Niels Stenhoj
I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
I'd rather recommend reinstalling 6.4. The Corel distro looks good on the polished surface, but it's rather tricky to set up if you wish work normally, and then of course, it lacks the large amount of packages. On the other hand I aggree with you that the printer setup is unsmart in 7.0. Cheers, Niels
From: Cliff Sarginson
Dear listmembers,
a couple of weeks ago I posted a request concerning my problems of printing after upgrading to SuSE 7.0 (I would NEVER do it again! how many troubles for nothing more!). I waited before writing again to you, because I sent again a help request to SuSE. Since I had no answer, I take again the liberty to ask you if you can help me -- a computer without a printer is almost useless!
A Message for SuSE. Firstly did you register your copy of Suse linux with them If you dont do that your support requests are silently ignored. If you did register it, did you get an automated acknowledgment from them of your support request. If you did register and got an acknowledgement then they are obliged under their 60 day support to help you, it explicitly states in section A.1.2 of the Suse manual that installation support covers local printing. If you got no acknowledgment then maybe your registration is not on their system. Bother them with this. Their support is so minimimalistic anyway, takes an age to get anything out of them, and the information is often wrong, or of the sledge-hammer variety. But they should be pressured into providing it. I hope SuSE is listening to this. Having once got an apology from their support for a 2 week delay in a reply to a message from me, on grounds that they were overwhelmed after the release of Suse 7 and understaffed to cope with it, I think the management of Suse should take a long honest look at their advertising. 60 day support means squat if you wait 15 days for a near-useless response. Suse is not a bad distribution, but they over-hype themselves and are in danger of becoming box-shifters. And I agree if they cannot have their non-german language documentation checked by a native speaker they should seriously consider what a bad impression this makes in their non-German speaking sales areas. Their handbook is in many ways excellent, but even the English version also suffers from obviously not having been proof read by a native English speaker. Much of the online documenatation suffers from this in an even bigger way. Comments in rc.config are often particularly oblique. Of course excellent advice is available on this list from people who have worked out how to get things working. Since this is effectively a cost-free support service for SuSE, they should take note of what is said on it ! Ok. End of sermon :) As for your printer problem. Get rid of all traces of the printer installation. You can do this by brute force, or I believe you can do it through the SETUP program that comes with apsfilter. With SETUP you may have more luck installing it as well. Good Luck Cliff
As suggested by some kind listmembers, I installed again the printer using Yast2. The "Hello wourld" page comes out correctly. Then the pritner (a very common HPLj3) is apparently installed correctly. But after that, what I get after trying to print with
lpr -Pprinter1 moglie.txt
is no printout and this message:
lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank: 2nd.
"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe".
A lpq command outputs :
Local printer 'printer1' on pentiumiii.miarete: Warning: queue is not active (no server present). Rank Owner Pr Job Host Files % Form Size Time 1st guido X 1 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:09 2nd guido X 2 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:19
what on earth is happening? This "printer1" is the default name given by Yast2. I did not change it because I have only one printer, can call it with any name. But why "no server present"? Should I delete all of the contents of the spool directory? Or should I install everything from scratch?
I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
Best regards, and thanks anyway! g.
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A Message for SuSE.
Firstly did you register your copy of Suse linux with them yes I did. I received a first answer, but it was totally useless and clearly nonsense -- they told me to look for a better driver: for a HPLJIIIp, better for archaeology than for computing! So I replied, saying something like: please send me a real answer, not this rubbish -- no answer at this stage...
[...]
Ok. End of sermon :)
As for your printer problem. Get rid of all traces of the printer installation. You can do this by brute force, how? deleting all the spool directory?
or I believe you can do it through the SETUP program that comes with apsfilter. With SETUP you may have more luck installing it as well. tried it, no change.
It seems to me that the clue must be in that "broken pipe" message. Why
a broken pipe?
lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt
Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host
pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta
Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank:
2nd.
"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe".
is there still hope?
g.
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Message-ID: <3A285DF7.A35902DF@halenet.com.au>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:27:03 +1000
From: Don Hansford
Message-ID:
From: Jerry Kreps
Sorry to bother you again with this printing problem. Before leaving Suse and installing another distribution (a friend suggest Mandrake as basically more reliable) I think I may try, with your kind help, a "final step".
SuSE 7 uses modules to load drivers. do a "cat /proc/modules" to see if lp is listed among the installed modules. If not then su to root and do "modprobe lp". If your printer is on, and online, you should hear it cycle when the lp module loads. Redo the "cat /proc/modules" and you will see lp and some associated modules listed. You can add "modprobe lp" to boot.local, so it will load the next time you reboot, then exit root and return to your user account. JLK <p>>
I tried *all* the suggestion of listmembers, including a new installation of 7.0. No change. From a lpq -a command I still get the "no spooling, no printing" answer.
Looking in /var/spool/mail/guido (or /var/spool/mail/root) I read the same kind of message:
"Your printer job (/home/guido/moglie.txt ) was not printed because it was not linked to the original file"
What may this mean? thanks again for a rather furious Italian user...
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SuSE 7 uses modules to load drivers. do a "cat /proc/modules" to see if lp is listed among the installed modules. OK, it was not installed.
If not then su to root and do "modprobe lp". Did it. Now there are several new lines, including printcap, and this crucial one:
lp 5476 0 (unused) is it correct?
If your printer is on, and online, you should hear it cycle when the lp module loads. No noise at all...
Redo the "cat /proc/modules" and you will see lp and some associated modules listed. OK. But when I try to print, I now obtain this message:
lpr: fatal error: no printcap entry for printer lp
I also tried with
lpr filename -Pljet3
but the answer is always the same.
this is driving me crazy...
thanks!
<p>-------------------------------------------
E-Mail: Guido Milanese
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:39:56 -0800
From: Ben Rosenberg
From: Jerry Kreps
On 02-Dec-00 Jerry Kreps wrote:
SuSE 7 uses modules to load drivers. do a "cat /proc/modules" to see if lp is listed among the installed modules.
OK, it was not installed.
If not then su to root and do "modprobe lp".
Did it. Now there are several new lines, including printcap, and this crucial one:
lp 5476 0 (unused)
is it correct?
Yup!
If your printer is on, and online, you should hear it cycle when the lp module loads.
No noise at all...
You must have a laser printer..... ;-)
Redo the "cat /proc/modules" and you will see lp and some associated modules listed.
OK. But when I try to print, I now obtain this message:
lpr: fatal error: no printcap entry for printer lp
I also tried with
lpr filename -Pljet3
but the answer is always the same.
this is driving me crazy...
thanks!
No need to go insane! Now you have to configure the printcap file... Run YaST and select the 'Configure Hardware" option, which leads to the option to configure the printer, or run YaST2 and chose the 'Configure the Printer" button. BTW, I've tried Mandrake 7.1... It has a nice GUI install program, after that it is just RH. SuSE's got it beat a country mile. JLK <p>>
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No need to go insane! Now you have to configure the printcap file... Run YaST and select the 'Configure Hardware" option, which leads to the option to configure the printer, or run YaST2 and chose the 'Configure the Printer" button.
Thanks -- did it. Always the same answer: installing with yast2, the
hello world statement is sent correctly, but the test page is not
printed. From command line, lpq gives:
Local printer 'lp' on pentiumiii.miarete: no spooling, no printing
and lpr sometimes (not always) returns this info:
illegal ack code '': Pipe rotta
"Pipe rotta" = "broken pipe"
not very nice indeed....
I also tried:
cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
and this gave as output:
cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
Dec 3 12:10:00 pentiumiii lpr ascii: Readlockfile: cannot open/create
lock file '/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock': Permesso
negato
"Permesso negato" = permission denied
I was logged as root. The permissions of the lock file are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 dic 3 11:42
/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock
Permissions of the other lock files:
/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 nov 9 09:59 lock
which seems wrong to me: I changed to
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
but nothing changed -- still the message
Readlockfile: cannot open/create lock file
'/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock': Permesso negato
/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw/lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 dic 3 11:42 lock
To be sure, I also installed through yast. The problem is not, I think,
in the printcap configuration: did it also manually using SETUP, but no
change happened. There must be something wrong in the lock files
permissions ore something like that -- why this "no spooling" message?
I am rather confused, sorry to be such a nuisance to the list. But I
promise that, if all of this ends well, I will post a detailed message
with the whole story -- may be helpful to other people.
Best regards from Italy!
g.
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E-Mail: Guido Milanese
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:52:46 +0000
From: Tor Sigurdsson
On 03-Dec-00 Jerry Kreps wrote:
No need to go insane! Now you have to configure the printcap file... Run YaST and select the 'Configure Hardware" option, which leads to the option to configure the printer, or run YaST2 and chose the 'Configure the Printer" button.
Thanks -- did it. Always the same answer: installing with yast2, the hello world statement is sent correctly, but the test page is not printed. From command line, lpq gives:
Local printer 'lp' on pentiumiii.miarete: no spooling, no printing
and lpr sometimes (not always) returns this info:
illegal ack code '': Pipe rotta
"Pipe rotta" = "broken pipe"
not very nice indeed....
I also tried:
cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
and this gave as output:
cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
Dec 3 12:10:00 pentiumiii lpr ascii: Readlockfile: cannot open/create lock file '/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock': Permesso negato
"Permesso negato" = permission denied
I was logged as root. The permissions of the lock file are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 dic 3 11:42 /var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock
Permissions of the other lock files: /var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 nov 9 09:59 lock
which seems wrong to me: I changed to -rw-r--r-- 1 root root but nothing changed -- still the message Readlockfile: cannot open/create lock file '/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock': Permesso negato
/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw/lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 dic 3 11:42 lock
To be sure, I also installed through yast. The problem is not, I think, in the printcap configuration: did it also manually using SETUP, but no change happened. There must be something wrong in the lock files permissions ore something like that -- why this "no spooling" message?
I am rather confused, sorry to be such a nuisance to the list. But I promise that, if all of this ends well, I will post a detailed message with the whole story -- may be helpful to other people.
Best regards from Italy! g.
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do:
chown -R lp:lp /var/spool/lpd rclpd restart
The line printer daemon runs at the demoted level of lp, and as root owns all the control-files, lp can't change those files.
Thanks. After the changes you suggested were done, the printer printed
the queued files. However, even now, if I try to print anything with
lpr, I get the -- alas! -- usual message:
Dec 3 16:14:55 pentiumiii lpr lp: remote host pentiumiii.miarete:
illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta
Your print job has been sent to printer 'lp', job 768, rank: 1st.
Pipe rotta = broken pipe.
This is the very same message I had at the beginning of this unpleasant
story. The printer driver is the same I had been using for 2 years now,
ljet3, so there is, I think, no driver problem. Broken pipe, in this
case, means (SuSE Italy told me in their otherwise useless answer) that
the printing process is ended before being completed. But why? and why
the queued files were correctly printed?
thanks you all,
g.
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From: juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de Message-ID: <3A2E9B75.31B3AD71@ruhr-west.de> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:03:01 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] Printing problem after upgrade to 7.0 Guido Milanese wrote:
On 03-Dec-00 Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
Hi Guido, I do not know wether I prior replyed to that thread, I have still a few hundred messages left to go through... I was seeing similar problems, and I was [censored] with SuSE support on that matter. After investigating a few days, it was a permission problem on /etc/rc.config (660 root.root). Apsfilter sources /etc/rc.config to find out wether a2ps is used or something else. That failed for the obvious reason of permissions, wereas I could happy print i.e. postscript files as normal user, everything but text. changing these permissions cured it. Juergen <p>> > do:
chown -R lp:lp /var/spool/lpd rclpd restart
The line printer daemon runs at the demoted level of lp, and as root owns all the control-files, lp can't change those files.
Thanks. After the changes you suggested were done, the printer printed the queued files. However, even now, if I try to print anything with lpr, I get the -- alas! -- usual message:
Dec 3 16:14:55 pentiumiii lpr lp: remote host pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$?@': Pipe rotta Your print job has been sent to printer 'lp', job 768, rank: 1st.
Pipe rotta = broken pipe.
This is the very same message I had at the beginning of this unpleasant story. The printer driver is the same I had been using for 2 years now, ljet3, so there is, I think, no driver problem. Broken pipe, in this case, means (SuSE Italy told me in their otherwise useless answer) that the printing process is ended before being completed. But why? and why the queued files were correctly printed?
thanks you all, g.
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:53:39 -0500
From: Doug McGarrett
Dear listmembers,
a couple of weeks ago I posted a request concerning my problems of printing after upgrading to SuSE 7.0 (I would NEVER do it again! how many troubles for nothing more!). I waited before writing again to you, because I sent again a help request to SuSE. Since I had no answer, I take again the liberty to ask you if you can help me -- a computer without a printer is almost useless!
As suggested by some kind listmembers, I installed again the printer using Yast2. The "Hello wourld" page comes out correctly. Then the pritner (a very common HPLj3) is apparently installed correctly. But after that, what I get after trying to print with
lpr -Pprinter1 moglie.txt
is no printout and this message:
lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank: 2nd.
"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe".
A lpq command outputs :
Local printer 'printer1' on pentiumiii.miarete: Warning: queue is not active (no server present). Rank Owner Pr Job Host Files % Form Size Time 1st guido X 1 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:09 2nd guido X 2 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:19
what on earth is happening? This "printer1" is the default name given by Yast2. I did not change it because I have only one printer, can call it with any name. But why "no server present"? Should I delete all of the contents of the spool directory? Or should I install everything from scratch?
I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
Best regards, and thanks anyway! g.
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cliff@raggedclown.net
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donh@halenet.com.au
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dougmack@i-2000.com
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gmilanese@mclink.it
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jerrykreps@jlkreps.net
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juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de
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stefano.papini@gplvpartners.com
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stenhoj@adr.dk
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tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is