Re: [gentoo-user] OT expect script question

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 11:28:55 +1100 Adam Carter wrote about [gentoo-user] OT expect script question: > expect { > "string1" { } > "string2" { } > "*" { } > } From --- expect * Here the * matches

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On 2018.12.04 20:36, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 hours > longer > than last time on one PC and 6.5 hours longer on another. > For

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 hours > longer > than last time on one PC and 6.5 hours longer on another. > For those systems it might be worth trying the

[gentoo-user] OT expect script question

In my response matching I would like to have a catch all so if nothing specific is matched I can take an action, but when I include the "*" option, it is selected even if string1 matches. From the expect man page "In the event that multiple patterns match, the one appearing first is used to select

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:10:05 +, Mick wrote: > > It starts the compile by running make or whatever is appropriate for > > the build, so it doesn't need to build anything already built any > > more than a bare make does. But using ebuild compile means you get > > the same environment as when

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 12/04/2018 12:20 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/04/2018 12:05 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> mount: /home/joseph/win10: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, >> cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program. > > That should be: > mount -t cifs -o user=OP2

Re: [gentoo-user] Install 2011 Asus thin lappy

On 12/2/18 6:32 PM, Dale wrote: > james wrote: >> It has and Icore 5, 4 GB and 124GB SSD. If I can I like to nuke the >> windows 7 home edition or shrink it way way down, in case I need access >> on the windows side. It's really nice, sturdy metal case and very, very >> thin. It has a 13.5 inch

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:57:11 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:23:27 -0500, Jack wrote: > > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long > > >> time compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:23:27 -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long > >> time compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the Portage tmp > >> dir) and just continue the compile (either make or

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: > >>> Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with > >> > >>> this, I'm thinking: > >> One thing I've done in the past if

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.03 21:59, Dale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I found the manufacturer website.  It says this card supports Hot >> Plug and Hot Swap.  Have you ever did this?  If so, any problems?  I >> don't know why but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me >> nervous.  I'm old school I

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 12/04/2018 12:11 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:05:49 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> When I try to mount it: >> mount -t cifs -o user=OP2 //10.0.0.119 /home/thelma/win10 >> mount: /home/joseph/win10: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. >> nfs, cifs) you might

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with this, I'm thinking: One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long time compiling is to cd to the top build dir

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 12/04/2018 12:05 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > mount: /home/joseph/win10: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, > cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program. That should be: mount -t cifs -o user=OP2 //10.0.0.119 /home/thelma/win10 mount: /home/thelma/win10: bad option;

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: > > Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with > > this, I'm > > thinking: > One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long time > compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the Portage tmp dir) >

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:05:49 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > When I try to mount it: > mount -t cifs -o user=OP2 //10.0.0.119 /home/thelma/win10 > mount: /home/joseph/win10: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. > nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program. Do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 12/04/2018 11:26 AM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 04/12/2018 13:16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I'm trying to mount windows 10 shared folder on Gentoo home folder but >> I'm getting an error from "smbclinet" > > smbclient does not mount. It just connects a CLI client to the server > (see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

On 2018.12.04 02:51, Pouru Lasse wrote: [snip] I thought that dvdisaster should work for DVDs based on the name, but it gives the error "this software does not support DVD-ROM type media" for DVD games and also for regular movie DVDs. Maybe the ebuild is limited to just CDs for some

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

On 2018.12.03 21:59, Dale wrote: Hi, I found the manufacturer website.  It says this card supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap.  Have you ever did this?  If so, any problems?  I don't know why but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me nervous.  I'm old school I guess.  Plugging things

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On 2018.12.04 02:35, Mick wrote: Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM ...

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 04/12/2018 13:16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to mount windows 10 shared folder on Gentoo home folder but > I'm getting an error from "smbclinet" smbclient does not mount. It just connects a CLI client to the server (see the manpage). The -L argument is for the NetBIOS name

[gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

I'm trying to mount windows 10 shared folder on Gentoo home folder but I'm getting an error from "smbclinet" smbclient –L //10.0.0.119 –U OP2 –L: Not enough '\' characters in service I've tried: mbclient –L //10.0.0.119 –U OP2 smbclient –L //10.0.0.119/backup –U OP2 smbclient –L

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

I haven't done hot-plug with it, so cannot vouch for that working or not. I use one of the ESATA ports to go to a 4x external drive enclosure (so using FIS), with spinning disks that are solely for backups (zfs send/receive of snapshots), and two of the internal ports for SSDs in a zpool.

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

Andrew Udvare wrote: > PS1 and PS2 games can be checked without special hardware in this case, > but for others, specific hardware is required. Games on DVD are a general problem as I expect them to contain intentionally "unreadable sectors" that can neither be distinct from unreadable sectors

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

Dale wrote: > So as usual, they are not very Linux friendly.  Figures.  I was hoping The main problem with Linux is that the drivers at SCSI level in the kernel are worse than they could be, so if you like to get better results, you should encourage the kernel people to do their homework.

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

Francesco Turco wrote: > ddrescue? Are you sure this helps? >From the name, it sounds like it does not understand SCSI level, but this is required for best recovery results, as the problems usually are in the bad implementation at the drivers at kernel level. Jörg --

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

Pouru Lasse wrote: > I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd > like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? > I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only works for CDs, not > DVDs. Everything else seems to be Windows-only. I am not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:47 AM Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:06:22 GMT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

> Thanks for this. It may be I'll need to build chromium as a binary on the > faster PC from now on and copy it over to the older clients, but I can't > recall what command spews out the detailed CFLAGS for the client which I will > need to run on the faster host's CLI to emerge the binary.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:06:22 GMT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: > > >>> Running pre-merge checks

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: > > >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 > * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM