ThinEdge requires glibc 2.29, severely limiting OS compatibility

[m-kostira]

I'm playing around with thin-edge, installing it to a debian 10 VM using the script from github

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thin-edge/thin-edge.io/main/get-thin-edge_io.sh | sudo sh -s 0.2.0

It installs fine and I'm able to generate a cert and connect to c8y. However, the mapper fails to start. In the journalctl logs I see:

Jun 14 09:52:10 debian tedge_mapper[1464]: /usr/bin/tedge_mapper: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /usr/bin/tedge_mapper)
Jun 14 09:52:10 debian systemd[1]: tedge-mapper-c8y.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

This implies ThinEdge is incompatible with many fairly recent Linux versions, such as the latest Debian release. Upgrading glibc is risky (see for example https://red.ht/3d6nWy0). This could be a show-stopper for many potential adopters that have devices out there in the field running incompatible OSes.

[didier-wenzek]

@m-kostira Thank you for evaluating thin-edge. Regarding your issue, I'm surprised that you got an error with the mapper but not with the main tedge command. Indeed, both should have the same system dependencies.

Can you, please, send us the output of ldd /usr/bin/tedge and ldd /usr/bin/tedge_mapper? Thank you.

[itsyitsy]

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