Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Bugs => Topic started by: bigpcman on January 21, 2009, 01:05:32 PM
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I really like the download function of the app browser. This is a great feature. I have been trying it out on various applications. When I do an app browser file optional install of oo2 I get an icon on the tray but it doesn't do anything. A menu item is added as well (oo2) but it doesn't do anything either.
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do you have enough ram? did you also install expat2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel, and libxml2.tcel?
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I have 1GB of ram and I am not running a swap file. I expected a message of some kind if there was not enough ram.
As for:
tobiau: did you also install expat2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel, and libxml2.tcel?
So are you saying all these must be installed manually before installing oo2?
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edit: I loaded expat2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel, and libxml2.tcel and loaded oo2, no difference. By the way I do get an installed ok message.
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the thing about the download only button is that it only downloads one tce (or tcz) at a time, and load local only installs one at a time.
when you download and install at the same time, it downloads the deps (which are listed in a .dep file on the ftp version of the download page.) the .dep is just a list of the other necessary extensions. so the ,dep file for oo2 lists the extensions i mentioned, and perhaps another one i didn't, like maybe gtk2.
this is actually mentioned on the info page (the one that displays when you click on an extension in the appbrowser list) but not every extension lists the deps anywhere except the .dep file.
i don't know if you've seen the downloads page, it's here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/ which leads to tce: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/ tcz: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tcz/
but the ftp version has .dep files: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/index.html where the one for oo2 lists these deps: expat2.tcel, libxml2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel. but you've installed those.
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I have 1GB of ram and I am not running a swap file. I expected a message of some kind if there was not enough ram.
There is no check.
the thing about the download only button is that it only downloads one tce (or tcz) at a time
Afaik this has never been the case (unless you are talking about parallel downloads)
and load local only installs one at a time.
There has been a change since 1.0rc9.
but the ftp version has .dep files: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/index.html where the one for oo2 lists these deps: expat2.tcel, libxml2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel.
fyi, it's also available via http if you just enter the url manually.
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the thing about the download only button is that it only downloads one tce (or tcz) at a time
Afaik this has never been the case (unless you are talking about parallel downloads)
and load local only installs one at a time.
There has been a change since 1.0rc9.
i was almost certain that download only did not download deps, but only because i didn't know about a change since 0.4 or something. back then i was paying pretty close attention to how tc downloaded things, i'm not saying i'm certain now.
since then i always read the changelog for new versions (and every related post,) but sometimes i really don't notice something like that until i read it again somewhere else on the forum. the update is appreciated.
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As near as I can tell all the correct files have been downloaded including the .dep file. Any ideas as to why oo2 doesn't work?
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It has nothing to do with loading from the optional directory.
This extension fails the ACID test, i.e, boot TC with base norestore nolocal then load the extension via appbrowser. If it does not run then it is an issue with the extension. To see what the issue is, open an xterm and type soffice. You will see that it cannot find needed binaries, .e.g., soffice.bin being one.
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Ok, I get the same results. I'll try this extension at a later date after repairs have been made.
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I tested with "base norestore" rather than "base norestore local" - hopefully I'll have time today to look for the problem.
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Typo. Make that "base norestore nolocal"
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Hmm...
I booted with "tc base nostore nolocal", made a folder /tmp/test and copied oo2.tcel, oo2.tcel.dep, expat2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel and libxml2.tcel into the folder.
I tried both tce-load and the appbrowser to load oo2 from /tmp/test (re-booting and repeating the procedure each time) and in both cases oo2 started and ran from the command line, from the menu item and from the icon: $ soffice &
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
am I missing something?
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Here is the error that I see when run from command line from a base norestore nolocal:
tc@box:~$ soffice
/usr/local/bin/soffice: line 237: /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/pagein: not found
/usr/local/bin/soffice: line 249: /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice.bin: not found
Here are the mounts:
tc@box:~$ mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue)
/dev/loop0 on /tmp/tcloop/expat2 type cramfs (ro)
/dev/loop1 on /tmp/tcloop/fontconfig type cramfs (ro)
/dev/loop2 on /tmp/tcloop/libxml2 type cramfs (ro)
/dev/loop3 on /tmp/tcloop/oo2 type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/loop4 on /tmp/tcloop/opera-9.61 type iso9660 (ro)
Here is what is installed on the system:
tc@box:~$ ls -la /usr/local/tce.installed/
drwxrwxr-x 2 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Jan 22 04:53 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:46 expat2
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:46 fontconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:46 libxml2
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:51 oo2
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 0 Jan 22 04:53 opera-9.61
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Ah - so the error is with oo2.tczl, not oo2.tcel - let me look again, I wonder if it is a cramfs/mkisofs issue..
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I'm really not sure what happened here - my orginal oo2.tczl looks to be corrupted and when I build a new one from a proven working oo2.tcel, both the cramfs and the mkisofs versions fail with the error you have.
I'll delete the oo2.tczl extension until I can figure this out.
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It looks to be a story of symlinks.
oo2.tcel
/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /usr/local/oo2/program/soffice
oo2.tczl
/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /usr/local/oo2/program/soffice
/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice -> /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice
It appears that something gets lost in the chain of symlinks and soffice cannot find these two files:
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/pagein
tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice.bin
when it should be looking for these two files:
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/pagein
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice.bin
This can be fixed by changing the menu item/icon to launch soffice by "/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice" rather than "/usr/local/bin/soffice"
This means that it cannot be started from the command line, but I guess if you use oo2, you probably wil not use the command line anyway :)
Anybody see a better solution?
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Placing the scripts that are installed in /usr/local/bin (sbase, soffice, scalc, spadmin, sdraw, swriter, simpress, smath) in a user.tar.gz makes it all work as a tcz. They themselves are symbolic links so they will not take up space.
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Yeah - I guess this way we have consistency between the tcel and tczl extensions...
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Did you find the underlying cause? Which part is unable to follow several symlinks?
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I didn't see anyone reply that this has been 'fixed.' I'm digging for a proper fix.
EDIT: for me, changing a link seems simple enough -
#!/bin/bash
set -x
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/soffice
ln -s /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice /usr/local/bin/soffice
exit 0
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Sorry - I'd completely forgotten I needed to fix this. Give me a day or two and I'll get on it.
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I played around with the symlinks suggested above and several others besides - it still doesn't want to work.
I did discover I'd posted the user.tar.gz version though ???