Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new USB question

2020-10-05 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Jack wrote: > Grant - thanks for the info. > > I'm curious about the pairing by PCI device - it's not clear if the > every root_hub is a real controller, or not. The specs of the board > say USB2: two ports on the back and two USB2 headers (so I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:11:23PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Here is my /etc/portage/make.conf if it will help on the use variable. > I'm sending the whole file since it may have other errors. Looks fine to me, aside from this potentially problematic line: > MAKEOPTS="-j2" I've had some

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When the failure happened on the computer I neglected to braille the > commands that would have only produced a single copy of the text. In > order to get the content from the second file, I needed to run the emerge > update world

[gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here is my /etc/portage/make.conf if it will help on the use variable. I'm sending the whole file since it may have other errors. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more #

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 19:55:50 > From: Ashley Dixon > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure > > This is confusing me to no end, partly because you seem to have

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
This is confusing me to no end, partly because you seem to have included the same text twice? The information posted seems to contradict itself, particularly with the USE-flags. For example, here you have the `static-libs` flag disabled: On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 02:40:47PM -0400, Jude

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:45:15 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I have a Virgin cablemodem that I have switched into modem-only mode, > > so it behaves similarly to your device, and plugged it into the > > router. It gives a setup like you want, except I chose to use DHCP > > for simplicity of

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 04:14:07PM -0400, John Covici wrote: > Also, you might want to go to the ~ tre -- I have no trouble compiling, but I > have version 10.35 which is much newer than what you are trying to compile. This concerns `dev-libs/libpcre`, not `dev-libs/pcre2`. As far as Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:40:47 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Script started on 2020-10-05 09:53:20-04:00 [TERM="linux" TTY="/dev/tty2" > COLUMNS="80" LINES="25"] > livecd / # emerge --ask --verbose --udpdate --deep > --newuse @world > > These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: ... > Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that > doesn't crash here. > > This lets me view the physical device(s), but the new disk is marked as > "Failed". ... What if you put it on the 53c1030 card, can you do that, at least to verify the

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 01:51:45PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world > Would it have been best to refuse to do the emerges at that point in the > installation? The handbook was silent on that point except to say > updates could be done after

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread Michael
On Monday, 5 October 2020 11:39:44 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 21:47:53 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On their support board, the ISP's tech support told me... > > > > a) My computer or router needs to be configured to get the IP > > > >automatically by DHCP to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new USB question

2020-10-05 Thread Jack
Grant - thanks for the info. On 2020.10.04 21:41, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-10-05, Jack wrote: Still not Gentoo specific, but I'm still trying to figure out if my motherboard (MSI B350 Tomahawk) is doing something funny with the USB connections. In theory, there should be USB3

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Oops, correction the emerge offers where pcre broke happened after: emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world Would it have been best to refuse to do the emerges at that point in the installation? The handbook was silent on that point except to say updates could be done after

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suspect the earlier failure may have been due to a package integrity issue. One of the problems is links doesn't let me know when a download is finished the way I have it configured now. Also, using speakup I had to turn on links are numbered in html options then save html options to even

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ashley, Thanks much for help you provided. You should know, as a result of that help you got me all the way to kernel configuration. On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 02:59:18 > From: Ashley Dixon > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To:

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 17:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" > that one drive. Some kind of progress. Searched for more and older releases of arcconf, found Version 1.2 that doesn't crash here. This lets me view the physical

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:57 schrieb Rich Freeman: > If you're doing software RAID or just individual disks, then you're > probably going to go into the controller and basically configure that > disk as standalone, or as a 1-disk "RAID". That will make it appear > to the OS, and then you can do whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.10.20 um 16:38 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > And theese on the aac, since they have the same scsi host, and I guess > that scsi ch.0 is for the configured drives and ch.1 for the raw drives: >> [1:0:1:0]diskICP SAS2 V1.0 /dev/sda >> [1:0:2:0]diskICP

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM wrote: > > Stefan G. Weichinger: > > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" > > Perhaps theese links will help: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread karl
Stefan G. Weichinger: > On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. > > I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" ... Not that I think it will help you much, but there is sys-apps/sg3_utils: # lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA TOSHIBA MG03ACA3

[gentoo-user] RAID: new drive on aac raid

2020-10-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On an older server the customer replaced a SAS drive. I see it as /dev/sg11, but not yes as /dev/sdX, it is not visible in "lsblk" Back then with an installed Suse Linux, I had some GUI tool to create a VD on top of the physical drive and "enable" it ... I am searching how to achieve that in

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 21:47:53 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On their support board, the ISP's tech support told me... > > a) My computer or router needs to be configured to get the IP >automatically by DHCP to get the connection up and running. > > b) The TC4400 is a cable modem without any

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-10-05, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > >> However, I would wait until the new modem arrives as most do allow >> you to turn off DHCP for the LAN and the information you have may >> only apply to the WAN connection. > > On their