On Friday 08 May 2015 08:15:57 Mark Wendt wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > Okay, the ssh logins are working correctly. Now we have a
> > > Linuxcnc problem. Just to verify the ssh logins are working
> > > correctly, can you bring up any other X applications, like gears,
> > > or the eyes?
> >
> > xeyes and glxgears both work, albeit gears is a bit slow, 21 fps.
>
> Good. That may be network related, but with X, who knows? May even
> be a framebuffer issue.
>
> > > Okay, this kinda goes back to the same error as above - the
> > > "BACKGROUND ." It keeps trying to invoke the 'image" command on
> > > something which doesn't exist. Here's one workaround I found:
> > >
> > > "Workaround:
> > >
> > > Create ~/.Xresources plain text file with content:
> > >
> > > *.background: gray75
> > >
> > > then
> > > $xrdb -load ~/.Xresources"
> > >
> > >
> > > This may not set up the right color for the "BACKGROUND", but try
> > > it to see if the errors go away.
> >
> > You da man. But I think I just found an error, a file that has not
> > been included in my backups, bad dog, no biscuit.
> > The startup gui to select the machine config now shows up, but then
> > it dies. Trace:
> > Found file:./my_LinuxCNC_machine2.hal
> > ./my_LinuxCNC_machine2.hal:12: Can't find module 'boot'
> > in /usr/realtime-3.4-9-rtai-686-pae/modules/linuxcnc
> > Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
> > Running HAL shutdown script
> > LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in
> > the log:
> > /home/gene/linuxcnc_debug.txt
> > and
> > /home/gene/linuxcnc_print.txt
> > as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the
> > terminal
> >
> > So it appears I will have to reinvent that module as I had used
> > something Jon suggested, with the pulses lengthened and a 2 or 3
> > repeat loop added, its the powerup enable for his pwm driven servo
> > amplifier, which I am using to drive the lathes spindle motor.
> >
> > I may have a copy of it on this machine, if I'd recognize it when I
> > saw it.
>
> Normally that file is a user created file, however, some programs may
> create that automagically in your home directory. Not sure if the
> install of Linuxcnc does that or not. I'll have to check that on my
> machine at home.
>
> > Humm, tried to run a sim/axis/lathe, it asked me to allow a copy to
> > be made on my configs dir, I click yes, and the startup script baled
> > out:
> >
> > gene@lathe:~$ linuxcnc
> > LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-602-gfa8867a
> > Error in startup script: error
> > deleting "/home/gene/linuxcnc/nc_files/ngcgui_lib": directory not
> > empty while executing
> > "file delete $linkname"
> > (procedure "prompt_copy" line 69)
> > invoked from within
> > "prompt_copy $::inifile"
> > invoked from within
> > "if [ok_to_copy_config $::inifile] {
> > set copied_inifile [prompt_copy $::inifile]
> > if {$copied_inifile == ""} {
> > c..."
> > ("while" body line 6)
> > invoked from within
> > "while {1} {
> > focus $::tree
> > vwait ::choice
> >
> > if { $::choice == "OK" } {
> > if [ok_to_copy_config $::inifile] {
> > set copied_in..."
> > (file "/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/bin/pickconfig.tcl" line 806)
>
> Wonder why it's trying to delete an existing directory, with files in
> it? Since that's the case, rename the ncgui_lib directory to some
> other name and see if it will run.
Not life & death. It should now Just Work once I get that boot module
restored, and get 5i25.zip unpacked in the lib/firmware/hm2 tree.
But first, hook up the caffeine IV.
>
> > So I'll go see if I can find a local copy of that missing boot
> > module. I also need to move a copy of 5i25.zip to there but until I
> > can make the nfs share mountpoint directory on this machine, thats
> > not going to work. sftp to the rescue for that.
> >
> > My nfs shares are all mounted at /net/machinename, but for some
> > reason I, nor sudo, cannot mkdir lathe, no permission. For all I
> > know it could be this funkity drive.
>
> Nope, /net directories are controlled, I believe by autofs, and only
> autofs can make or destroy directories there.
That I did not know. Thanks.
[...]
> > Exactly what I expected. That will greatly facilitate making it all
> > fly again. Now I better go & make us some starter fluid, aka
> > coffee. Come to think of it, I had apt-get install the
> > nfs-kernel-server about an hour ago, on that machine because I
> > noticed it was missing from the /etc/init.d directory. Duh. Thats
> > what I get for doing all this without any morning caffeine. The
> > damned dots don't connect. :(
>
> I can empathize. I'm worthless till I hook up the caffeine IV. ;-)
[...] :)
> > And that session of synaptic just caused x to log:
> > X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
> > Major opcode: 19
> > Minor opcode: 0
> > Resource id: 0x440004d
> >
> > But the wondow looked normal. Sigh...
>
> I think that has something to do with a bad exit code from KDE/Gnome
> etc. I've seen that message before. It's no big deal. Some places
> have said that if you use shutdown from a terminal rather than either
> an init 6 or init 0, or the shutdown menu item you may see that. You
> can ignore that.
>
> Another place to look when troubleshooting X, is /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> That gets updated and rotated at the beginning of every X session.
Sounds like what I have observed.
Cheers Mark, Gene Heskett
--
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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