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Nothing like responding to your own post!

Ok, after a lot of digging around I came across this Microsoft support article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327259 which actually talks about Windows Server 2003, but the fix seemed to work:

To change the “Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders” policy setting:
Start the Group Policy snap-in.
Browse to the following folder:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles
In the right pane, double-click Do not check for user Ownership of Roaming Profile Folders.
To turn on the policy, click Enabled. To turn off the policy, leave the policy undefined or click Disabled.
Click OK.

My assumption is that WinXP was unable to determine the correct owner of the profile folder possibly because of ACLs. There also appeared to be an option to put into the smb.conf file under the [Profiles] share called ‘profile acls = yes’ but this didnt seem to have any effect for me, I guess because my profiles are not stored in the default Samba location so that setting didnt apply?

Either way, the Microsoft solution seems to have fixed the problem. Yay! 😀

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Well I am still experiencing this problem. Its always different packages that fail, I have tried recreating these packages anyway but it made no difference. If I remove those packages, other random ones have a problem, one time after a build there was no failures! Its totally random!

In my most recent build there was an issue with createUser.pkg (which I downloaded from here) it created the user, but it didn’t create the whole home directory structure, the only folder in the homedir was Desktop.

I am at a loss as to how to fix this. If I cant rely on InstaDMG outputting a reliable image then I will have to revert back to the old manual way of making images. Can any of the devs weigh-in and provide me with some suggestions. I’d also be interested to know if the other people in this thread managed to solve their similar issues.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: jdyck[/u][p]I may try repacking a few of them, but to be honest I’m not at all confident that’s the problem for the following reasons:
1. It’s never the same package(s) that fail – so far it seems completely random.
2. Some of the failed packages are things like iMovie 06 that are fresh from Apple and have worked numerous times before.
3. All of the packages have worked in the past at least once, and
4. Most of my packages were built in PackageMaker 3.03 (I had tonnes of problems with 3.0 crashing on me)
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Yeah, this is exactly it. Packages that I had trouble with before (like the Citrix ICA client) installed fine when I performed the next build, but something else was missing instead. Like jdyck, overall every package has worked at least once, but just never all in the one build. I use JAMF Composer to create my packages. I never notice this problem when I do small builds of around 10 pkgs, my main build train has around 45 pkgs in it at the moment.

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Thanks for your work on this one, GarageBand loops drive me crazy. I also install 4 Jam Packs and Soundtrack Loops but its just a matter of adding the extra locations to your script.

The one question I have is I am happy to run this as a on-boot launchd script, but because I have to reindex 6 different directories it takes a long time and the script continues running even after I login. Is there some way to configure a on-boot script so that the machine waits until the script is finished before displaying the loginwindow?

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Thanks, I fixed up those folders.

I ran a build again last night and its as you say, pkgs that failed last time installed fine this time, but a couple of others were missing. The logs say nothing helpful other than “The install was successful” but they dont appear in my final dmg. Sorry I cant be of more help. I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this one. Has anyone else noticed this?

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I am experiencing this problem also, but I am not using InstaUp2Date.

I did an InstaDMG build last night and here are are the log excerpts from the simple log:
[code]
Installing Burn 1.7u.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/5
Installing Burn 1.7u…..
Installing Pandora Connections.mpkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/51
Installing Pandora SMB…..
Installing Pandora AFP…..
Installing Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/6
Installing Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601….. [/code]

And the same from the verbose log:
[code]
Installing Burn 1.7u.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/5
installer: Package name is Burn 1.7u
installer: Installing at base path /tmp/instaDMGMount.5jskZI
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Burn 1.7u…..
installer:
installer: Installing Burn 1.7u…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: Validating package
installer: Writing files
installer: Writing files: 1% complete
#
installer: Writing files: 11% complete
installer: Writing files: 16% complete
#
installer: Writing files: 42% complete
#
installer: Writing files: 68% complete
installer: Writing files: 68% complete
installer: Writing files: 68% complete
#
installer: Writing files: 82% complete
#
installer: Writing files: 97% complete
installer: Writing package receipt
installer: Finishing Installation…..
##
installer: Finishing Installation
#
installer:
installer: The software was successfully installed…..
installer: The install was successful.
Installing Pandora Connections.mpkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/51
installer: Package name is Pandora Connections
installer: Installing at base path /tmp/instaDMGMount.5jskZI
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Pandora Connections…..
installer: Running Installer actions
installer:
installer: Installing Pandora SMB…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: Validating package
installer: Writing files
installer: Writing files: 93% complete
installer: Writing package receipt
installer: Installing Pandora AFP…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
#
installer: Validating package
installer: Writing files
installer: Writing files: 93% complete
installer: Writing package receipt
installer: Finishing Installation…..
#
installer: Finishing Installation
#
installer:
installer: The software was successfully installed…..
installer: The install was successful.
Installing Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/6
installer: Package name is Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601
installer: Installing at base path /tmp/instaDMGMount.5jskZI
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601…..
installer:
installer: Installing Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: The install failed
(The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.) [/code]

The Burn 1.7u.pkg installed successfully according to the logs, but its not on my final image.
The Citrix ICA Client 10.00.601.pkg encountered an unknown error, but the pkg works fine if I install it manually.

Also, while we are on the subject. If you look at the simple log excerpt, the order is weird. InstaDMG installs 5, then 51, then 6. I have a total of 51 numbered folders in the CustomPKG folder in sequential order. Shouldnt 5 and 6 come before 10?

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: thespider[/u][p]
Hi scr,

Did you get the “specified users” option working? I tried for a hour but didn’t get it.
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No, it assigns the permissions to the user but it doesn’t select the “only these users” option. Thats where I gave up. 🙂

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Ok, so apparently its all my fault.

Unplugging the Firewire cable from the back of the machine stopped the delay before the loginwindow! I dont know how or why, but I’m glad it has nothing to do with my build train.

Still working on the ‘specified users’ option in ARD though.

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Ok, it seems as though the blue screen only starts happening after I install the 10.5.5 combo update. I performed an erase and install using my Leopard 10.5 DVD and after restarting a few times there were no delays. I then modified my build train to remove the 10.5.5 combo updater and installed the resulting dmg onto my test machine (Aluminum iMac 20″) and everything was still ok (no delays during bootup). So I then proceed to install the 10.5.5 combo update and on the subsequent restart (and all other restarts thereafter) I get a long delay before the login window.

My next test is to try a previous combo update (10.5.3) and see if the problem persists.

Heres an excerpt from the system.log incase anyone finds it helpful:

[code]Oct 20 12:23:36 Macintosh com.apple.loginwindow[24]: Shutdown NOW!
Oct 20 12:23:36 Macintosh mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.2 (Aug 15 2008 14:58:54)[23]: stopping
Oct 20 12:23:36 Macintosh com.apple.loginwindow[24]: System shutdown time has arrived^G^G
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
Oct 20 12:23:51 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
Oct 20 12:23:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Oct 20 12:23:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kextd[10]: 405 cached, 0 uncached personalities to catalog
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 253631 free pages and 8513 wired pages
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 79
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: 97 prelinked modules
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.seatbelt
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for mb
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Seatbelt MACF policy initialized
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt Policy (mb)
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: devfs_make_node: not ready for devices!
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 4575079B-AD8D-3748-8AE9-C84A3E365518
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on IOProviderClassIOResourcesIOResourceMatchboot-uuid-media
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST on
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: wl0: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Wireless Controller
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: 4.170.46.11Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleICH8AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST3250820AS Q Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 001ff3fffe5f99b8; max speed s800.
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
Oct 20 12:23:52: — last message repeated 5 times —
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -128
Oct 20 12:23:52 localhost kernel[0]: ** Device in slot: SLOT–1 **
Oct 20 12:23:54 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost bootlog[37]: BOOT_TIME: 1224476629 0
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost rpc.statd[18]: statd.notify – no notifications needed
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost DirectoryService[33]: Launched version 5.5 (v514.23)
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[24]: Login Window Application Started
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost fseventsd[28]: bumping event counter to: 0x636573304101c085 (current 0x0) from log file ‘636573304101ba9d’
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost kernel[0]: yukon: Ethernet address 00:1f:f3:51:71:89
Oct 20 12:23:56 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:1e:c2:c5:58:d3
Oct 20 12:23:57 localhost blued[47]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started.
Oct 20 12:23:57 localhost kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][StartInterruptPipeRead] there is alredy a pending read, skipping.
Oct 20 12:23:57 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1
Oct 20 12:23:58 Macintosh configd[35]: setting hostname to “Macintosh.local”
Oct 20 12:23:58 Macintosh mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.2 (Aug 15 2008 14:58:54)[23]: starting
Oct 20 12:23:58 Macintosh /usr/sbin/ocspd[60]: starting
Oct 20 12:23:59 Macintosh kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet – recovering from missed interrupt
Oct 20 12:23:59 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: WARNING: sandbox_init error Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.bsd.dirhelper err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.distributed_notifications.2 err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.ocspd err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.mDNSResponderHelper err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.SecurityServer err=1100Could not set Mach lookup policy for service com.apple.SystemConfiguration.configd er
Oct 20 12:23:59 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:00 Macintosh kernel[0]: AppleYukon2 – en0 link active, 1000-Mbit, full duplex, symmetric flow control enabled port 0
Oct 20 12:24:00 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:02 Macintosh configd[35]: subnet_route: write routing socket failed, Network is unreachable
Oct 20 12:24:02 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:03 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:04 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:05 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead
Oct 20 12:24:32 Macintosh kextd[10]: IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out waiting to write kernel symbols
Oct 20 12:24:42 Macintosh kextd[10]: writing kernel link data to /var/run/mach.sym
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKit to quiesce
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: Busy services :
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1 [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0 [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3 [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0 [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@30e006e0506010 [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@30e006e0506010/IOFireWireUnit [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@30e006e0506010/IOFireWireUnit/IOFireWireSBP2Target [1]
Oct 20 12:24:56 Macintosh configd[35]: InterfaceNamer: iMac8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/FRWR@0/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@30e006e0506010/IOFireWireUnit/IOFireWireSBP2Target/IOFireWireSBP2LUN [1]
Oct 20 12:28:07 Macintosh ARDAgent [76]: ********ARDAgent Launched********
Oct 20 12:28:08 Macintosh ARDAgent [76]: call logout from LoginLogoutProxyCallBackFunction
Oct 20 12:28:08 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
Oct 20 12:28:09 Macintosh loginwindow[24]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh authorizationhost[81]: MechanismInvoke 0x123660 retainCount 2
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh SecurityAgent[82]: MechanismInvoke 0x101660 retainCount 1
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh SecurityAgent[82]: NSSecureTextFieldCell detected a field editor ((null)) that is not a NSTextView subclass designed to work with the cell. Ignoring…
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh SecurityAgent[82]: MechanismDestroy 0x101660 retainCount 1
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh authorizationhost[81]: MechanismDestroy 0x123660 retainCount 2
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh loginwindow[24]: Login Window – Returned from Security Agent
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh loginwindow[24]: USER_PROCESS: 24 console
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh ARDAgent [83]: ********ARDAgent Launched********
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[77]): Exited: Terminated
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[83]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 86 PPID 1 AppleVNCServer
Oct 20 12:28:17 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[83]): Exited: Terminated
Oct 20 12:28:18 Macintosh ARDAgent [90]: ********ARDAgent Launched********
Oct 20 12:28:18 Macintosh ARDAgent [90]: ********ARDAgent Ready********
Oct 20 12:28:19 Macintosh mDNSResponder[23]: Couldn’t read user-specified Computer Name; using default “iMac-001FF3517189” instead[/code]

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: knowmad[/u][p]its working as an install only script? ie it runs during build not boot? way cool, this I have to test.
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Yeah, as an install only script ARD access is enabled, it grants the privileges fine. The only part I cant get it to do is the ‘specified users’ option. No matter what I seem to set there it doesnt change the radio button selection on the ARD config screen from ‘All Users’ to ‘Only there users’. This becomes a problem for me as I only want our Admin account to have ARD access, not any other local accounts created on the machine.

As for the blue screen delay before the loginwindow, this happens even after I restart the computer. Im going to try an InstaDMG build without the 10.5.5 combo updater and see if it still happens. This kind of has me stalled at the moment, but seeing as no-one else has had the issue it must be something I am doing thats causing it. Perhaps i’ll try restoring the image to a second machine too, just to be sure.

Thanks for the replies.

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Thanks Patrick. I finally got around to testing it again and its all working great now. I think that target tag was the key.

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