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Tiny Core Base => TCB News => Release Candidate Testing => Topic started by: Juanito on February 04, 2015, 02:24:08 AM
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Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce that Tiny Core 6.1 rc1 is available for public testing:
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/6.x/x86/release_candidates/
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/6.x/x86_64/release_candidates/
This is a release candidate. If you decide to help test, then please test carefully. We don't want anyone to lose data.
We appreciate testing and feedback.
Changelog for 6.1 rc1:
* busybox updated to 1.23.1
* tce-load: apply awk patch from forum member aswjh
* settime.sh: fix systems with default year not 1970
* tce-load: remove unused depi variable
* search.sh: awk patch from aswjh
* search.sh: move common part to a function
* tce-audit: awk patch from aswjh
Also in conjuction with the above in Xprogs:
* apps: quote the search argument, patch from aswjh
* apps: reload the list on an empty search
* apps: Set a minimum size to the window
* apps: Nicer resize behavior
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Boot time decreased from 35 seconds to 32 seconds. Thanks, aswjh! (:
Mount tool still says FLTK in the title. q:
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Some of that is depmod being faster (no 800 forks anymore), which is in busybox 1.23.
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Thanks everyone involved for the ongoing development. Just updated core.gz and vmlinuz. Terminal outputs version 6.1rc1. Hope to help with testing. Boots flawlessly. Didn't time boot, but no obvious changes noted.
The new string search feature in Apps is great. No longer need to memorize the first 3-4 letters of a package. Searching 'office', for example, returns goffice and libreoffice.
Juanito wrote:
Changelog for 6.1 rc1:
* busybox updated to 1.23.1
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Also in conjuction with the above in Xprogs:
* apps: quote the search argument, patch from aswjh
* apps: reload the list on an empty search
* apps: Set a minimum size to the window
* apps: Nicer resize behavior
Not sure i understand what 'quote the search argument' means. When entering a search into Apps, same example as 'office' above, Apps properly returns results but the search word 'office' is blanked from the search box - is this by design? Normally i would think most users would want their search term to stay on screen until they are ready for a new search - maybe that's just me.
Regarding 'reload the list on an empty search'. Again maybe i don't fully understand, but when the search box is empty and i click to select the empty box but don't enter a search term query and press enter (search for nothing), the available extension list does not reload but just continues to display the last search results. I need to manually select Apps > Cloud > Browse to repopulate the extension list.
No noticable changes with Apps appearance or resizing behaviour on my Xvesa netbook, running 1024x576. As before, the Apps dropdown can only be selected by clicking over the letters Apps, not what appears to be the 'button' to a layperson. On my system there is no minimum size limit for the Apps window and the Apps dropdown appearance still squishes and stretches funky when resizing. Screenshots attached.
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@nitram
It definitely sounds like you're using old Apps, not the new one. The old one is likely loaded from your tce directory, you should update extensions to get the new Xprogs.
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Thanks curaga.
Feel free to demote me from Jr. Member back to Newbie :)
Now i know how to complete a full upgrade. The new Apps is great, including Apps dropdown sizing, Apps window sizing, search feature, empty search to reset extension list, etc. Thanks for your hard work.
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Quick observations.
1. On my system, SystemTools > SetTime doesn't do anything and autocomplete via terminal doesn't seem to have any SetTime command. Is this the same as Date/Time in the ControlPanel? If so, the ControlPanel version appears to work but not from the SystemTools > SetTime drop down menu.
2. Most of Tiny Core's system tools and default applications can be closed with the esc key, including: Apps, ControlPanel, Editor, Exit, RunProgram, MountTool and Services. The only ones that don't are Aterm and Top, which probably runs in an Aterm. Is it possible to incorporate a consistent built-in esc key exit for Aterm and Top so all default applications behave consistently? I know q (quit) works for Top, but again not consistent with esc. Not a biggie but might be a nice enhancement.
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Continued from previous post:
3. Apps > Maintenance > OnDemand Maintenance issue. When an extension is added or removed from the OnDemand list via Add Item and Delete Item the screen flickers and in JWM the last application minimized, example Firefox, will then also return to the screen background behind Apps. This flickering and unminimizing behaviour is not evident when using Apps > Maintenance > OnBoot Maintenance to add or delete extensions.
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Hi nitram
1. On my system, SystemTools > SetTime doesn't do anything and autocomplete via terminal doesn't seem to have any SetTime command. Is this the same as Date/Time in the ControlPanel? If so, the ControlPanel version appears to work but not from the SystemTools > SetTime drop down menu.
If you look in:
/home/tc/.wmx/SystemTools/SetTimeyou'll see it runs getTime.sh which sets the time to UTC. Port 13 on your firewall has to be open for this to work.
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Hi Rich.
Thanks for the info. One of the first things i always set up is a firewall, in this case iptables. So i removed iptables running from startup. Rebooted and confirmed via terminal iptables -vL that it wasn't running (policy accept for input, forward and output). My system's internet is working great.
Selecting SystemTools > SetTime gives me nothing. No error or popup, nothing. Running getTime.sh via terminal indicates ntpd must be root. Running getTime.sh in terminal as root returns nothing, just back to command prompt.
/usr/bin/getTime is owned by root and is executable:
#!/bin/busybox ash
# bmarkus - 26/02/2014
NTPSERVER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/ntpserver)
/usr/sbin/ntpd -q -p $NTPSERVERAnything else to try?
Edit: Forgot to note, my system does not have a /home/tc/.wmx/SystemTools/SetTime file or .wmx folder.
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2. Most of Tiny Core's system tools and default applications can be closed with the esc key, including: Apps, ControlPanel, Editor, Exit, RunProgram, MountTool and Services. The only ones that don't are Aterm and Top, which probably runs in an Aterm. Is it possible to incorporate a consistent built-in esc key exit for Aterm and Top so all default applications behave consistently? I know q (quit) works for Top, but again not consistent with esc. Not a biggie but might be a nice enhancement.
I'm afraid not. In a terminal, the ESC key can be actually used to type some escape codes, some terminal apps will use it, etc.
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The hv_storvsc module has been moved from the scsi-KERNEL extension to the base to allow (hopefully) the use of hyper-v.
The iso files and modules{, 64}.gz have been regenerated and reposted as well as the scsi-KERNEL extensions in the repos.
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curaga wrote:
I'm afraid not. In a terminal, the ESC key can be actually used to type some escape codes, some terminal apps will use it, etc.
Understood - thanks.
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Latest RC1 build detects the drive as SDA1 in Hyper-V now, thanks! :D Is there a way I can install TCE microcore to SDA1 using a text installer? If so, how? It doesn't look like you distribute Core-Plus builds of your RCs
However it returns an error when booting to the console, "udevadm settle - timeout of 5 seconds reached, the event queue contains: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:/LNXSYBUS:00/PNPA03:00/device:07/VMBUS:01/vmbus_0_1 (1175)" and a couple more lines afterward. I'm guessing this is related to the next error
(http://i.imgur.com/Y630PX9m.png)
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..When booting to GUI the video displays momentarily normal, but after about 5 seconds (same time it takes for the other error to show up in the console) if flips out as if the video goes out of synch. I've experienced this intermittently with the current CorePlus 6.0 release. On the CorePlus 6.0 release, option "Boot Core Plus with Openbox Window Manager" is 100% reliable.
EDIT: Using the "wait 5 seconds for slow devices" seems to fix the issue
(http://i.imgur.com/URSykVZm.png)
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Third, mouse acceleration seems to be off by about 5% in the GUI.
Thanks for all your work on this and the quick turnaround on my bug yesterday.
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It doesn't look like you distribute Core-Plus builds of your RCs
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/6.x/x86/release_candidates/CorePlus-6.1rc1.iso
'Glad things seem to be working with the waitusb boot code :)
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vmbus wait: a bug in the vmbus kernel driver I suppose, it hangs or is too slow for some reason.
mouse off: also visible in Virtualbox 4.x series, not visible in Qemu or Vbox 3. As it's a vbox bug in vbox, I guess it's a similar bug in HyperV. Using Xorg is a workaround.
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I saw the coreplus about 15 minutes after posting that, thanks
Not having good luck getting packages to install in RC1
6.0 works fine
(http://i.imgur.com/gz5yRMO.png)
6.1 accepts the command but has no output, no error reported either. Python does not install. I also tested with openssh (my main two use cases at the moment).
(http://i.imgur.com/oUGRD0S.png)
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I just deleted the python extension and downloaded it again using tce-load without problems - something to do with hyper-v maybe?
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Edit the first line of the script to be "#!/bin/sh -x" and you'll have debug output.
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I don't understand what script to edit.
I re-installed on a virgin hyper-v machine instance and wasn't able to reproduce the (lack of) error; python and ssh installed.
The bad vm is still having the problem so it's not dns related. Let me know if you want to investigate further on that box or we can write it off as beginner's luck.
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vi /usr/bin/tce-load
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sed -i '1c\#!/bin/sh -x' /usr/bin/tce-load
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^ of course those as root, or with sudo.
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nitram wrote:
Quick observations.
1. On my system, SystemTools > SetTime doesn't do anything and autocomplete via terminal doesn't seem to have any SetTime command. Is this the same as Date/Time in the ControlPanel? If so, the ControlPanel version appears to work but not from the SystemTools > SetTime drop down menu.
Had to do some learning and testing. Now realize that ControlPanel Date/Time allows user to manually set date/time, while SystemTools>SetTime syncs ntpd. Wanted to point out some SystemTools>SetTime and other issues, maybe others could confirm or address.
1. Unless i overlooked, the Core pdf manual makes no reference to the SetTime command. Very difficult for a new user to figure out the difference between this and the Control Panel's Date/Time feature. Would be great if the manual could be more comprehensive in regards to default SystemTools.
2. Similar to above, query renaming SetTime to something more intuitive for new users, such as NetworkTimeSync(ntpd) or similar.
3. Lack of any GUI output via SystemTools>SetTime. Every SystemTools menu entry provides GUI output when selected (Apps, ControlPanel, Editor, Exit, MountTool, RunProgram, Screenshot, Services, Top and Xkill), except SetTime. At the very least, it would be great if a popup indicated 'UTC time set to xxx' and if the script is unable to successfully complete 'network time sync not successful, check ntp server, network connection and port 13 status'.
4. No .wmx folder is re-created in the user's (tc) home directory when using JWM, which houses the .wmx/SystemTools/SetTime script, among others. The .wmx directory is created when running flwm_topside. Can it be created when running any/all window managers?
5. Similar to above, why does /opt/.xfiletool.lst by default remove .wmx when the scripts contained in this folder are useful regardless of window manager?
Thanks for reading.