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date
2023-11-23

Installing/upgrading Rocky9 on an old desktop with missing driver

I ran into a snag upgrading from Centos7 to Rocky9 on my decade-old desktop. Its SAS controller driver was no longer included by default:

$ lspci -nn | grep 'Serial Attached SCSI'

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Trilinos: a40168fcd61c10c4d719a4eae06912fd63d7e233
Compilers: Intel 2019u4 
MPI: Intel MPI 2019u4
Boost: 1.69.0
HDF5: 1.8.21
NetCDF: 4.6.3
Arch: Skylake Xeon

Configuration:

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UpdateCTestConfiguration  from :/dev/shm/nolta/cleanenv.T1YS61/Trilinos-trilinos-release-12-12-1/build/DartConfiguration.tcl
Parse Config file:/dev/shm/nolta/cleanenv.T1YS61/Trilinos-trilinos-release-12-12-1/build/DartConfiguration.tcl
 Add coverage exclude regular expressions.
SetCTestConfiguration:CMakeCommand:/bg01/homescinet/scinet/trickle/software/2018f/opt/base/cmake/3.10.2/bin/cmake
UpdateCTestConfiguration  from :/dev/shm/nolta/cleanenv.T1YS61/Trilinos-trilinos-release-12-12-1/build/DartConfiguration.tcl
Parse Config file:/dev/shm/nolta/cleanenv.T1YS61/Trilinos-trilinos-release-12-12-1/build/DartConfiguration.tcl
Test project /dev/shm/nolta/cleanenv.T1YS61/Trilinos-trilinos-release-12-12-1/build
Constructing a list of tests
Done constructing a list of tests
Updating test list for fixtures

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//
// Start server:
//   $ ./simple-upload-server -port 10000 -root /path/to/upload/dir
//
// Upload file:
//   $ curl -i -T a-file-name host:10000/a-file-name
//

package main

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Install prerequisites:

$ sudo apt-get install libaio1

Download the DEB package from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/, and install:

$ sudo dpkg -i mysql-5.6.12-debian6.0-x86_64.deb
$ sudo chown -R root.root /opt/mysql/server-5.6

Create mysql user:

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// Test to understand what https://gist.github.com/2517475 is actually doing.

#include <stdio.h>

#define __AC(X,Y)       (X##Y)
#define _AC(X,Y)        __AC(X,Y)
#define BITS_PER_BYTE   8
#define PAGE_SHIFT      12
#define PAGE_SIZE       (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define __user