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Subject: [ts-7000] TS stance on TS-Linux (was Re: busyborx II)
From: "Jesse Off" <>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:43 -0000
Are you a student closing in on your assignment due date?  You'd be 
surprised how much support time we waste helping students with their 
homework.  Like you, they can often get especially aggravated and 
desperate for help when their due date comes round.

Replace your /bin/awk with a binary from Debian and run this:

cp /bin/busybox /x; dd if=/dev/zero of=/x bs=1 seek=431248 count=1 
conv=notrunc; mv /x /bin/busybox

Problem solved.  Now, stop it or please go away.  Really.

//Jesse Off


--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  "dawydiuk" <eddie@> wrote:
> >
> > TS-Linux is supported and it is finished, please keep in mind 
> > Technologic Systems is not the author of busybox. You should be 
> able 
> > to copy awk and find binaries from the Debian tarball above.
> > 
> > The mailing list has been growing recently and I haven't had the 
> > oppurtunity to follow the list as much as I'd like to. If you 
have 
> > any filesystem problems with any of our products please CC me and 
> I 
> > will be able to help you to resolve any problems you have...
> > 
> > //Eddie
> >
> 
> Hi Eddie, good to see you back in action on the list, your posts 
are 
> helpful.
> 
> Narrowing this discussion down to the specific issue that you have 
> addressed.
> 
> I did grab awk (mawk) for the debian tarball but the problem 
largely 
> remains since busybox is already loaded and responds to awk so the 
> true awk never gets called. (I remove the symlink and mv mawk awk)
> 
> This means this solution can only work if anything that uses awk 
> calls mawk. It's a work around of sorts but not really fix.
> 
> It seems a better approach to either rebuild bb as used in 
TSlinux , 
> but with awk taken out, or build a more recent bb. Since may other 
> bugs have been fixed since the pre-release version used in TSlinux 
> this seems the obvious way to go.
> 
> This presents two other problems. 
> 
> 1/ reverse engineer busybox config so as to not prevoke other 
issues 
> by it's being differently built from the distibuted busybox. Here 
> including on the server a copy of the bubybox .config  used to 
build 
> TSlinux would be a quick reliable solution. 
> 
> 2/ The debian tarball provided is recommended if a compiler is 
> required. While I was able to build my own code by booting to 
debian 
> over nfs it fails with busybox due to the "value too large" errors 
> that are also seen in the boot log.
> 
> ### 50 Value too large errors , then fails.
> 
> find: use: Value too large for defined data type
> find: verbose: Value too large for defined data type
> find: with: Value too large for defined data type
> scripts/basic/split-include: find: No such file or directory
> make: *** [include/config/MARKER] Error 1
> 
> #onboard kernel
> Linux arm 2.4.26-ts11 #3 Tue Jun 6 14:13:14 MST 2006 armv4l unknown
> 
> 
> This would seem to imply some incompatiblity between -ts11 and the 
> debian tarball since 'find' does not show this issue in TSlinux.
> 
> Can you shed any light on that?
> 
> Thanks for picking this up.
> 
> best regards, jacques.
>



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