[Gambas-user] Still having problems with Farm's Downloads

PICCORO McKAY Lenz mckaygerhard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 14:53:15 CEST 2018


Tobias, of couorse unless try if the problem its core utils

my attemp its to check the consistency of the hole instalation, ok!

Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

2018-08-17 8:43 GMT-04:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> > i'm very curious of the problem.. could you make a chroot from a live
> disk
> > into your instalations and check?
> >
> > i mean, in your machine of the problem:
> >
> > 1) download a real linux like debian, but live disk
> > 2) boot and when ready install gambas from debian (jessie has 3.5 so you
> > must download strecht for 3.9)
> > 3) try to use gambas farm, we will assume will work ok, so then:
> > 4) make a chroot to your hard disk when the windos-mint are installed
> > 5 export the x11 environment
> > 6) run the xorg/session and the start gambas  ide from your
> > disk/instalation  disk
> > 7) tryit again
> >
>
> What is this supposed to accomplish? Confirm that Debian has sha256sum,
> but the extra long way by using some code inside a specific X11
> application?
>
> Maybe before doing all that stuff, check in a terminal in your Mint if
>
>   $ echo -n | /usr/bin/sha256sum
>   e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  -
>
> produces the expected output in the second line. If it does, sha256sum
> is not the problem. As far as I can see, Linux Mint 19 gets coreutils
> from Ubuntu Bionic [1], which does include /usr/bin/sha256sum [2].
> You can also try
>
>   $ dpkg-query -L coreutils | grep 'sha[0-9]'
>
> to see a list of 'sha...' stuff that got installed from coreutils,
> and where it is exactly, although it should really be in /usr/bin.
>
> The "Cannot compute checksum" error message can be caused by a missing
> `sha256sum` utility but also by sha256sum not being able to read the
> file it is instructed to hash, due to, let's say, an unhandled download
> failure earlier, or by any other error that happens under the jurisdiction
> of that one Catch block in the IDE. (Any other error would be weird,
> admittedly, like a changing output format for sha256sum.)
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history
> [2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/coreutils/filelist
>
> PS: Usual disclaimer, I'm not familiar with dpkg and its various front-ends
> so there might be some research necessary to fix commands I suggest.
>
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