On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 01:36:56 pm Gene Heskett did opine: > Greetings guys; > > I installed, fresh, the 10.04 cd image yesterday, and I am slowly > getting the missing stuff installed, like sshd. And amanda's client > packages so I can recover all my gcode. > > Overnight it went 12 megs into swap and got laggy as all get out. > > I assume the first thing is to run stepconf and generate new configs, > but there aren't any examples in the ~/emc2/configs dir, totally empty, > and when I try to run stepconf I get an rtapi missing error. > > Whats next? Go get that script and re-install emc? > > > Thanks.
More info: Tried to run emc as the user gene, picked the stepper_inch config from the menu, then got this: g...@shop:/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai$ emc EMC2 - 2.4.3 Machine configuration directory is '/home/gene/emc2/configs/stepper' Machine configuration file is 'stepper_inch.ini' Starting EMC2... insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/rtai_hal.ko': -1 Operation not permitted Realtime system did not load Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2... RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2) HAL: ERROR: rtapi init failed halcmd: hal_init() failed: -22 NOTE: 'rtapi' kernel module must be loaded ERROR: Module hal_lib does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtapi does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtai_math does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtai_sem does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtai_fifos does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtai_sched does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module rtai_hal does not exist in /proc/modules Cleanup done EMC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log: /home/gene/emc_debug.txt and /home/gene/emc_print.txt as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal g...@shop:/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai$ And from dmesg: [61158.717614] RTAI[hal]: ERROR, LOCAL APIC CONFIGURED BUT NOT AVAILABLE/ENABLED. [61416.202211] RTAI[hal]: ERROR, LOCAL APIC CONFIGURED BUT NOT AVAILABLE/ENABLED. [67750.283154] RTAI[hal]: ERROR, LOCAL APIC CONFIGURED BUT NOT AVAILABLE/ENABLED. The real technical explanation is "Something is buggered up someplace." ;-) Hints appreciated. Thanks guys. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The universe is all a spin-off of the Big Bang. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users