Tonfotos: An up-to-date list of supported Linux distributions

Andrey · 2023-06-29T09:30:29+00:00

It’s Impossible to Be Fully Compatible with Linux Unfortunately, unlike Windows and macOS, where there is a very short list of possible versions, the API cha...

Tonfotos: An up-to-date list of supported Linux distributions

bjorn

Andrey

Thank you for your reply!
Ik will replace Fedora 41 with Kubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and report my findings.
Generally spoken, I would guess that the majority of Linux users uses (very) recent versions of their distro’s. Upgrading is super easy. Thus, support of very old libraries is probably not very important.

Would flatpak be a solution for this headache?
As far as I understand, flatpak apps include all their libraries and run in a sandbox.
The flatpak format is supported by almost every Linux version. There is an online appstore (flathub).
By using flatpak, you would only need one format, supporting even more Linux versions (for instance, Arch based) than now. It supports auto-update, too.

Andrey

bjorn Thus, support of very old libraries is probably not very important.

The issue is, some distros are lagging far behind, that even latest releases are too outdated compared to ubuntu for example. And for some reason those distros are quite popular.

bjorn Would flatpak be a solution for this headache?

Yes this one , or snap could potentially be a soluiton, but again, that is just a theory that requires testing. And that would also mean complete rebuild of our CI/CD system. I am afraid we will not be able to find enough time for that in our roadmap any time soon. Sorry.

bjorn

Hi again,

On Kubuntu 20.04.6 LTS tonfotos does not start.
In the terminal I get this:

Error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33′ not found (required by /usr/lib/tonfotos/resources/app/.webpack/main/native_modules/src/build/Release/sharp-linux-x64.node)

Ubuntu 20.04 has GLIBC 2.31

Is tonfotos compiled on Ubuntu 20.10?

Andrey

bjorn Is tonfotos compiled on Ubuntu 20.10?

We use docker image amd64/ubuntu:20.04

bjorn

Andrey

That’s a pity.

bjorn

This time, I installed tonfotos on MX Linux 23, which is based on Debian 12.
It installed and scanned my 35.000 images well.

On day two, I started to batch write people tags to general tags of the files (to have them permanently stored and be used by other apps).
It seems that this action (after a couple of times) makes tonfotos freeze. I had this feeling before, on Ubuntu and Debian 12.
The terminal gives this message: MenuCommand context_to_tag
After that, it produces no more output. The UI of tonfotos freezes.

Does this give you any clue, Andrey?

bjorn

After restart, tonfotos ran fine for a while.
After batch writing a tag to a couple of hundred jpg’s, the UI froze.
Terminal said:

}
intercepted file:///usr/lib/tonfotos/resources/app/.webpack/renderer/message_box/index.html
Error sending usage statistics: /app/collect Error: socket hang up
at connResetException (node:internal/errors:704:14)
at TLSSocket.socketOnEnd (node:_http_client:505:23)
at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:525:35)
at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1358:12)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
code: ‘ECONNRESET’
}

Andrey

bjorn Does this give you any clue, Andrey?

Nope. Please turn on debug logging, this will give much more information: https://community.tonfotos.com/d/26-making-debug-logs-in-tonfotos

bjorn Error sending usage statistics: /app/collect Error: socket hang up

This should not be related. This is anonymous statistics, it can fail but this should not affect anything.

bjorn

Andrey

Now, the UI freezes directly and every time.
No debugging possible.
I think I have to give up for now.

Phiznlil

I am running 24.04. Apart from the occasional freezes ( 100% reproducable when going into the duplicates album) it is working well ( I have to delete the “ui” section in config.json to be able to run again after a freeze).

I notice the Ubuntu version is 1.11.4 while the RPM is 1.11.7 is there an update available?

Andrey

Phiznlil Thank you for noticing. We will check the distribution publishin system.

Gordo

Phiznlil

Thanks for the info. I had given up a little while ago and was occasionally checking for updates on the forum. I had been running Tonfotos 1.11.2 on Linux Mint 22.1, it was stable for a while then the ui froze again. As you mentioned, I deleted the “ui” section of the json config file and it works after a restart. I am going to do a manual update, I downloaded the 1.11.14 deb version and will install it today. It seems that the newer versions, 1.11.7 and now 1.11.8 are not available for download as deb files yet.