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I'm not sure why it doesn't work like you're trying, but I suspect that you're interfering with the nodelet's attempts to remap itself. The nodelet manager expects the last argument to be it's name without the __name:=

Try just running it with

rosrun nodelet nodelet manager nodelet_manager

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