What you are saying convinces me that the controller is waiting for a response from the operator.
--J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/25 23:35, jrmitchellj wrote: > > Did you try an alt-tab combo to check if there was a dialog box open, and > > hidden? > I didn't know about that but I'll take a look b4 I reboot it again. The > row of buttons at the top of its screen continued to work normally, they > just didn't do anything to the machine, and the keyboard worked also. as > it was in a safe position to raise the head and a quick bump on page_up > moved the Z I also checked F1 & F2 which when F2 is on enables machine > power, and they both worked normally. I have that enabled on all of my > machines thru SSR's controlled by LCNC. The mill has a huge capacitance > in the spindle supply so those SSR's are staged for soft starts, else it > trips a 30A breaker in the service. With the soft start it runs fine on > a legal 20, even with the motor stalled. > > Thanks J. Ray. > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > [email protected] > > (818)324-7573 > > > > "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three > > decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded > > good." > > > > -- Thomas Sowell > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM gene heskett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I see linuxcnc still can't single step a subroutine, so I commented out > >> those 2 lines making it normal code & put an m2 after it. > >> Running in g21 I single stepped thru the routine, finding my speeds way > >> to slow but it worked, but I had a comma in the middle of the last > >> debug line, so it didn't print the 2nd argument at the end. Now its been > >> restarted & reloaded several times and while all the mouse buttons > appear > >> to work, the machine does nothing, no code executes. Short of rebooting, > >> I think I've done everything I know how to do. code attached after I > >> restored > >> the o100 sub endsub stuff. Ideas? I'm fresh out. It single stepped just > >> fine once, hasn't moved a motor since. > >> > >> Thanks all. > >> > >> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > >> -- > >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > >> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > respectable. > >> - Louis D. Brandeis > >> Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
