On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 12:22 -0400, Mark Wendt wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 12:20 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 05:37 -0400, Mark Wendt wrote:
> > ... snip
> >>    Are you already starting it from a launcher on the desktop?
> > ... snip
> >
> > Yes, I tried that a couple of times, but mostly I have been trying to
> > get back to the terminal from the halcmd: prompt, which needs to happen
> > first.
> 
> Kirk,
> 
> Can you post your startup script?
> 
> Mark

I have a shell script called config_modio that contains:
"
cd /home/kwallace/emc2/homann/modio_config
halrun -I h_modio_config.hal
"

I then created a launcher that calls the config_modio script. From the
launcher, the pyVCP window comes up but the threads immediately stop and
the keyboard locks up. I have to power off to reboot. If I invoke the
script from a terminal, the pyVCP window works fine, but when I close
the window, I am left with a halcmd: prompt, which I need to type exit
to get back to the terminal prompt.

I tried a bare bones LED pyVCP window with my launcher and it doesn't
lock up the keyboard, but it flashes the LED window and immediately
exits back to the desktop.

I think the latency test launcher does what I need to do, but it is
fairly involved and will take some time to figure out how it works and
then pick out the juicy bits.

I also need to go through my modio_config component to see where things
get locked up. I think I need to make it more fault tolerant, especially
when it is trying to set up the serial port, but doesn't succeed. It
seems the -I option gets ignored from the launcher, so the window pops
up, but disappears while the serial port is getting setup. When I run
the script from a terminal, the -I option gets honored and all is well,
except I get returned to the halcmd: prompt because I'm in interactive
or -I mode. Or that's my story so far.

-- 
Kirk Wallace
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/
http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html
California, USA


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