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Offline rhermsen

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Is it possible to run Wireshark on TinyCore (x86)?
« on: October 02, 2020, 04:26:58 PM »
On CorePlus (x86) installing Xorg-7.7.tcz following by reboot is sufficient.

On TinyCore (x86) with installing Xorg-7.7.tcz I don't get Wireshark running.
I get the following error:
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(wireshark-gtk:2964): Gdk-WARNING **: 19:13:38.402: The program 'wireshark-gtk' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 4312 error_code 2 request_code 139 (RENDER) minor_code 34)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Difference in /usr/local/tce.installed:
  • On CorePlus following list is installed as extension i.s.o. local on TinyCore
    • Xvesa
    • aterm
    • wbar
  • On CorePlus the following list is installed in additon (instlalled below list on TinyCore also but no difference)
    • acl
    • advcomp
    • attr
    • ezremaster
    • gzip
    • mkisofs-tools
    • tar
  • On CorePlus has following similar list is installed compared with TinyCore
    • CorePlus                   TinyCore
    • flwm_topside              flwm
    • (openssh                    dropbear     (just listed to be complete))
     

Does someone know what I'm missing on TinyCore to get Wireshark running?



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Re: Is it possible to run Wireshark on TinyCore (x86)?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2020, 03:05:09 AM »
That is the typical error from using a gtk2 theme incompatible with tinyx. In other words, it sounds like you weren't running Xorg. You should remove Xvesa from your onboot.lst just to be safe.
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Re: Is it possible to run Wireshark on TinyCore (x86)?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2020, 06:14:20 AM »
Hi Curaga,

Thanks for the hint. Together with the older advice you shared here, I'm getting an understanding.

Because TinyCore is having Xvega as part of the read-only cde directory I'm not able to take it out of the onboot.lst.
(the onboot.lst only shows dropbear.tcz)

I think I have to look at Core to achieve what I want.
« Last Edit: October 03, 2020, 06:24:46 AM by rhermsen »

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Re: Is it possible to run Wireshark on TinyCore (x86)?
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2020, 12:40:05 PM »
Yeah, if you're booting from a CD, that would work. Otherwise installing to the hd/usb/etc would be good.
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Re: Is it possible to run Wireshark on TinyCore (x86)?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2020, 10:03:43 AM »
Got Wireshark working on Core (after installing Xorg).
I will probably stick with Core i.s.o TinyCore or CorePlus ...

Thanks