Tiny Core v11.0

[Rich]

Hi bjorn

putty doesn't work in version 11

Maybe you could share what error messages you get when you enter the  putty  command?

[bjorn]

putty ran on every version up to 10.1 on 64-bit tinycore. There are no error messages, just a blank screen.

[Rich]

Hi bjorn
If you open a terminal, and enter the command  putty , you don't see any error messages in the terminal?

[rhermsen]

If you'd like to do a bisect and report the RAM regression to the kernel bugzilla, please do. I think it's quite possible nobody has noticed it yet.

Never looked at bisect before. And a bit rusty on compiling a 'custom' kernel, so not sure if I manage to get into this. I did put this on my todo list.

edit: And the 64-bit kernel is available on the 32-bit edition, for running with large RAM machines, etc.

Thanks for explaining! Wondered already before why sometimes 64bit extensions where present in the 32bit repo.

[Juanito]

putty ran on every version up to 10.1 on 64-bit tinycore. There are no error messages, just a blank screen.

putty works for me in tc-11.x x86 and x86_64

[rhermsen]

Tried a few times more to start a 11.0 VM with just 64MB. First time it failed again, second time the VM booted normally with 64MB.

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tc@box:~$ version
11.0
tc@box:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:          56056 kB
MemFree:            6864 kB
MemAvailable:       6308 kB
Buffers:             192 kB
Cached:            22016 kB
SwapCached:           20 kB
Active:            17756 kB
Inactive:          17100 kB
Active(anon):      17528 kB
Inactive(anon):    16756 kB
Active(file):        228 kB
Inactive(file):      344 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:             0 kB
HighFree:              0 kB
LowTotal:          56056 kB
LowFree:            6864 kB
SwapTotal:          4480 kB
SwapFree:              4 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         12644 kB
Mapped:             7748 kB
Shmem:             21636 kB
KReclaimable:       1160 kB
Slab:               5796 kB
SReclaimable:       1160 kB
SUnreclaim:         4636 kB
KernelStack:         464 kB
PageTables:          284 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:       32508 kB
Committed_AS:      44516 kB
VmallocTotal:     958464 kB
VmallocUsed:         652 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
Percpu:              164 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemHugePages:        0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FileHugePages:         0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
DirectMap4k:       20472 kB
DirectMap4M:       45056 kB
tc@box:~$


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tc@box:~$ version
10.1
tc@box:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:          56620 kB
MemFree:            7236 kB
MemAvailable:       9476 kB
Buffers:             324 kB
Cached:            28576 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:            19096 kB
Inactive:          20200 kB
Active(anon):      17932 kB
Inactive(anon):    17056 kB
Active(file):       1164 kB
Inactive(file):     3144 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:             0 kB
HighFree:              0 kB
LowTotal:          56620 kB
LowFree:            7236 kB
SwapTotal:          1612 kB
SwapFree:           1612 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         10388 kB
Mapped:             6972 kB
Shmem:             24604 kB
Slab:               5472 kB
SReclaimable:       1136 kB
SUnreclaim:         4336 kB
KernelStack:         448 kB
PageTables:          252 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:       29920 kB
Committed_AS:      40264 kB
VmallocTotal:     958464 kB
VmallocUsed:           0 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
Percpu:              152 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemHugePages:        0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
DirectMap4k:       20472 kB
DirectMap4M:       45056 kB
tc@box:~$


[andyj]

On 64-bit hplip needs to be recompiled against openssl-1.1.1, as it's looking for 1.0 now. This may also be true for 32-bit, but I haven't checked.

[Juanito]

Having recompiled hplip, it looks like the problem is with ghostscript 

[Juanito]

hplip and ghostscript posted to tc-11.x x86_64 repo

My hp network printer is found automatically and the test page prints , but most of the hp-* commands cannot find the printer..

[Rudock1]

Hi Juanito and Rich,

I use findutils and after upgrading to TC11 I noticed there is an error building the locate database with 'sudo updatedb'  because the sort utility is not found.  I see in the updatedb script on lines 111 and 115 a command to /bin/sort    The error is fixed with changing these two lines to /usr/bin/sort

thx
Billy

[Rich]

Hi Rudock1
Looks like a regression from the last update. The info file shows this in the  change-log:

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                2019/02/20 corrected sort path in updatedb
Current:        2019/11/29 updated 4.6.0 -> 4.7.0:

I don't understand why  /bin/sort  is not linked to  busybox  like all the other commands.

You didn't specify which architecture, but I suspect x86 and x86_64 are affected since their change-logs both indicate a recent update.

[Juanito]

<sigh> at least this time I remembered the script needed fixing, I just fixed it to the wrong place - I'll fix the extensions tomorrow.

[Rudock1]

Thanks for the quick replies.  Sorry I forgot to say I use Corepure64 , x86_64

Also, I use coreutils.tcz which gives me the GNU sort

thx and good health to all,
Billy

[Rich]

Hi Juanito
Since the script comes from an outside source, and will likely continue to point to  /bin/sort  in the future, would it make sense to
add a link command in the  tce.installed  file instead of always modifying the script?

[Juanito]

It actually points to /usr/local/bin/sort because coreutils is present at compile time.