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TCE Q&A Forum / Re: [Solved] Are all bash scripts any arch?

« Last post by aus9 on January 07, 2026, 08:06:37 PM »

Ok I was wrong again.  In the past....at my own risk.....I would have only one TC but this time I created a dir called 17 and I was editting the 16 onboot.lst.....YIKES
I failed to read my own bootloader that said I am supposed to edit files under
tce=/mnt/sdb1/17/tce

sorry for my bad testing
I will remove the image links

anyhow lets confirm its a true UTF bash script shall we

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locale a
locale: unknown name "a"
tc@box:~$ trans -b
J'adore linux
[WARNING] Connection timed out. Retrying IPv4 connection.
I love linux

Me thinks we have tested this truly now

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by andyj on January 07, 2026, 05:51:37 PM »

I thought it was in /etc/init.d/tc-config under the section called

# Here we check all the boot parameters using the fastest way known to men, case & loop

It's worse than you think. https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,23835.msg149704.html#msg149704

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TCE Q&A Forum / Re: [Solved] Are all bash scripts any arch?

« Last post by aus9 on January 07, 2026, 05:40:49 PM »

Hi Rich
I am posting things about this script test here at your request
I disagree with your assessment as I think both of us have been tricked with what is loading. I now believe that somehow the booting process....is reading elements from more that one boot list

Here is my alleged proof that you are mislead. That is...mylocale is still loading when I told it not to. Image expires in one month
https://i.postimg.cc/B6wNTV6L/gremlin2.png
1) onboot.lst has no mention of mylocale*
2) bootloader string has no mention of UTF setting nor timezone setting
3) but apps onboot maintenance tells a different story
4) ls installed command confirms that mylocale has loaded.....and that means we are tricked by the bash script
ie  I have yet to confirm that script fails

FWIW here is my new bootloader.....and I am booting 17b

menuentry "17a" {
linux /boot/vmlinuz17 home=LABEL=tc1 tce=/mnt/sdb1/17/tce waitusb=10 quiet lang=en_AU.UTF-8 tz=Australia/Perth blacklist=snd-hda-intel nozswap
initrd /boot/amd-ucode.img /boot/rootfs17.gz /boot/modules17.gz
}

menuentry "17b" {
linux /boot/vmlinuz17 home=LABEL=tc1 tce=/mnt/sdb1/17/tce waitusb=10 quiet blacklist=snd-hda-intel nozswap
initrd /boot/amd-ucode.img /boot/rootfs17.gz /boot/modules17.gz
}

and I have only just discovered that I can no longer use a boot code for lst=name.lst

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by aus9 on January 07, 2026, 04:57:19 PM »

I have lost the ability to have a grub entry lst=filename.lst
I thought it was in /etc/init.d/tc-config under the section called

# Here we check all the boot parameters using the fastest way known to men, case & loop

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by Paul_123 on January 07, 2026, 03:56:26 PM »

I normally rebuild gettext after the system is running.  (Not in a limited chroot environment). But the web is definately getting more tangled.

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by Juanito on January 07, 2026, 03:54:03 PM »

It depends on whether gettext was built in the toolchain chroot with very few dependencies present or not - as you say, it’s probably not the source of the issue.

I have seen the same problem in tc-16.x with configure checks not finding iconv in at least a couple of cases.

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by Rich on January 07, 2026, 02:54:06 PM »

Hi Juanito
I'm guessing it's probably not the issue, but I ran:

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readelf -d /usr/local/bin/msgfmt | grep NEEDEDon the original gettext in TC17 x86_64 and noticed a dependency
on  libxml2.so  that did not previously exist.

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Extension requests / Re: trickle

« Last post by Juanito on January 07, 2026, 12:08:19 PM »

I tried to compile trickle for x86-32 from source
https://github.com/mariusae/trickle/zipball/master/
but it doesn't work

https://github.com/mariusae/trickle/issues/24 maybe?

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Extension requests / Re: trickle

« Last post by neonix on January 07, 2026, 11:23:03 AM »

I tried to compile trickle for x86-32 from source
https://github.com/mariusae/trickle/zipball/master/
but it doesn't work.

I download this and trickle works

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trickle -d 30 -u 30 firefox
https://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/testing/RPMS/libevent-1.3b-1.el5.test.i386.rpm
https://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/trickle-1.06-2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
but

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trickled -d 30 -u 30 doesn't works.

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Alpha Releases / Re: Tiny Core 17.0 Alpha 1 Testing

« Last post by Juanito on January 07, 2026, 09:13:41 AM »

I copied gettext* from TCL 16 and now all versions of postgresql compile. I don't know what's wrong with the latest gettext because the error message doesn't have any useful information, but I know it's not right.

As it's difficult to trace the iconv() error, I replaced gettext in the 17.x repos with that from the 16.x repos