Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: majbthrd on March 05, 2010, 11:03:41 AM

Title: solution for "RPC: Unknown protocol" error message
Post by: majbthrd on March 05, 2010, 11:03:41 AM

For anyone who ran into the same problem that I did:

When trying to run a VXI-11 client (VXI-11 is a test equipment protocol that uses RPC) under Tiny Core, I got the following error message:

RPC: Unknown protocol

It seems that RPC functionality depends upon the /etc/protocols file being present to indicate what the IANA protocol numbers are for TCP and UDP.

The workaround was to remaster tinycore.gz (as described in the Wiki) to include /etc/protocols (which is a text file ~2kbytes in size found in many Linux distributions).

Title: Re: solution for "RPC: Unknown protocol" error message
Post by: curaga on March 05, 2010, 11:22:37 AM

Hmm, shouldn't need a remaster, an extension of iana-etc could do. Added on my todo list, unless someone else gets one done first.