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General TC Talk / Re: flatpak and TCL

« Last post by Juanito on December 13, 2025, 04:08:45 AM »

Juanito, did you ever find a solution for this "pivot_root: Invalid argument" error?

Sorry, no 

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Linux desktop on your phone...

« Last post by hiro on December 13, 2025, 04:06:14 AM »

yeah, exact same thing here. i installed an ssh client on the iPhone and have since never picked it up for anything but phonecalls...

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Linux desktop on your phone...

« Last post by Leee on December 12, 2025, 11:59:28 PM »

i kinda stopped using phones for anything productive when they stopped having keyboards (symbian on nokia e72 and BB10 was very usable for ssh'ing into servers).

i manage to slot so much time in front of proper workstations that i desperately need all screen-off time i can get, so i have to say i don't even miss it.

i would never buy a mobile computer without a proper screen+keyboard any more. but i have 3 backup thinkpads which should last a long time anyways

I used to do a 24/7 support rotation and carried the company's blackberry "classic" that I could use, in a pinch, to troubleshoot the entire EDI communications system via ssh - I had even tweaked the UI and reporting so everything fit decently on the blackberry screen.

The company had a third party warranty on the blackberry so, when the charging port went bad, I asked them to send me a new blackberry.  They said they'd have it to me within three days.  The next day they said, "Um... We can't get Blackberries any more so we're sending you a very nice iPhone instead."  Yeah, thanks a lot.

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TCE Corepure64 / mc.tcz extension issues

« Last post by CNK on December 12, 2025, 08:51:56 PM »

mc.tcz.dep on x86_64 now depends on aterm2.tcz which is silly because you might not be using that terminal emulator, or running a terminal without X. The changelog shows "remove aterm dep" in the previous version so maybe this was a mistake? MC works without aterm2.tcz installed.

The install script also gives these errors:

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chown: /home/cnk/.local/bin/mc-fix.sh: Not a directory
chmod: /home/cnk/.local/bin/mc-fix.sh: Not a directory

It seems the tce.installed script is intended to copy "/usr/local/share/mc/files/mc-fix.sh" into directory "/home/$USER/.local/bin", however if "/home/$USER/.local/bin" doesn't exist it uses "bin" as the name of the destination file:

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$ ls -lh /home/cnk/.local/
total 4K     
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     1000          50 Dec 13 12:36 bin
drwx--S---    5 cnk      1000         120 Dec 13  2025 share/

I'm not sure how to contact the maintainer aus9 short of making an account on linuxquestions.org.

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Remasters / Remixes - Unofficial / Re: Bootable CD with multiple versions

« Last post by Rich on December 12, 2025, 05:28:27 PM »

There may be another problem with tce being on read-only media.  If I try to install additional extensions with tce-ab, I get an error about "Read-only file system" from wget. ...

That's to be expected. Your original request stated:

My goal is to make a bootable CD that lets me choose between two different versions of Tiny Core.  I have programs in each version that I use under different circumstances. ...

You never said anything about installing extensions after booting. The fact that
you ask to do this with a CD (read only device) implies you don't want anything
to change its contents. If you want to install additional programs, you need to
add them to the image file and burn another CD.

... I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect that the problem is the symbolic link created between /etc/sysconfig/tcedir and the tce directory on the CD (because of copy2fs?). ...

That link is always created. That link makes it easy to find the tce directory
regardless of where its installed. Various scripts depend on it.

I'm curious. Since you are running off of a CD, Where did you think it was
going to install extensions anyway?

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General TC Talk / Re: flatpak and TCL

« Last post by GNUser on December 12, 2025, 04:58:43 PM »

Now I'm motivated to solve this, even if I never use flatpak on TCL

hiro, here is a simple way to reproduce the problem on TCL16 x86_64:

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$ tce-load -wi bwrap
$ bwrap --bind / / true
bwrap: pivot_root: Invalid argumentIf someone can help me find a fix or workaround for this error, I should be able to package flatpak for TCL.

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Remasters / Remixes - Unofficial / Re: Bootable CD with multiple versions

« Last post by Dacicus on December 12, 2025, 03:36:40 PM »

Some error messages when booting that xwbar.lst can't be written to the tce directory.
This is expected since tce is on a CD and read only. This message is harmless.

There may be another problem with tce being on read-only media.  If I try to install additional extensions with tce-ab, I get an error about "Read-only file system" from wget.  I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect that the problem is the symbolic link created between /etc/sysconfig/tcedir and the tce directory on the CD (because of copy2fs?).  I can install extensions from other sources (e.g., USB drive) with tce-load, but that requires that I have the extensions downloaded already.  This problem just popped up within the last 24 hours because I tried to install an extension that I didn't have downloaded already.  I might have a solution to this, but I want to do some additional testing.

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by Paul_123 on December 12, 2025, 02:56:46 PM »

You may need to look at sdl3, since that is where most development is happening, and the raspi linux drivers are quite modern. I have a feeling that you are going to get major differences depending on if you using  1) standard linux frambuffer 2) Xorg 3) Wayland

There's a reason I've stayed away from graphics development as much as possible.

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by daab on December 12, 2025, 02:45:05 PM »

   didn't think to look there  , I assumed that this "essential" feature was fully functional given that SDL3 is now current.
I'll have a dig and see if I can attach the touch screen to a linux x86 desktop and see what results I get there.

Thanks.

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by Paul_123 on December 12, 2025, 02:04:42 PM »

What indications are there that this is an OS issue?  If this is an SDL error, perhaps you will get more traction on the SDL forums.

Looking at github, there are issues around Mouse/Finger Motion and up/down events.