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In general, this means you have a cycle in your tf tree. A tree is comprised of nodes, each with exactly one parent. The relationship is directed. A simple situation causing a loop would be with three nodes (a, b, c), where a is child of b, b is child of c, and c is child of a.

Chances are you mixed up the parent-child relationship somewhere in your config.

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