[civicrm.root] wrongly evaluated on Joomla
Under some circumstances, [civicrm.root] is evaluated as /components/com_civicrm/civicrm/ but should be /administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/ resulting in various failures.
A workaround is to use the path instead of the variable.
For example, see https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/27652/location-of-civicrm-css-on-joomla
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