UCI user.tar.gz errors?Forum: System Topic: UCI user.tar.gz errors? started by: eco2geek Posted by eco2geek on April 01 2006,06:56
I'm booting DSL 2.3 from a USB key ("sda"), with a number of *.dsl, *.tar.gz, and *.uci MyDSL extensions on sda2.Four of them, TclTutor, coreutils, mc, and vtcl (all *.uci's) give similar error messages when loading: tar (child): /opt/coreutils/user.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous error (Substitute, e.g., "TclTutor" for "coreutils" and likewise for the other two; the error message is exactly the same.) What does the error message mean, and how does one make it go away? Out of the four, the only one that doesn't have files in /opt is vtcl; its directory /opt/vtcl is completely empty. Other uci's, like opera850 and openoffice-2.0, don't generate the error. Posted by roberts on April 01 2006,16:45
As stated previously, the U in UCI means by definition that an embedded user.tar.gz exists. These UCI's that are mentioned do not meet current UCI specifications.I will broaden the scope of this definition to include .ci type extensions for v2.4, but that will not solve the issue for the many copies of current DSL which will continue to experience this error. The maker of these UCI's must run some modified version of DSL othewise they too would be experiencing these errors. The maker of these UCI should update them to include a null user.tar.gz. thereby supporting the definition and allowing their extensions to run all versions of DSL. Anyone who makes DSL extensions should verify that they work on unmodified version of DSL. |