You might try running a diff side by side on the ini and hal for each setup, and watch for typos. look. I know that I have more than my share of those!
--J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com "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, Sep 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 9/8/25 13:22, jrmitchellj wrote: > > I would check for any files that did not get copied to the new folders, > > including any hidden files (.axis). > > Then did you tweak all of the .ini files to point to the new directory? > > Will this setup for EDM be used on the same machine as the original > > configuration? > yes and yes, then i commented out the 2 loadrt's and both addf's. So s/b > same as src but No change in results. src version runs, this won't. > What do you want to see? And thank you. > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > jrmitche...@gmail.com > > > > > > "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, Sep 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: > > > >> some typu's fixed > >> > >> On 9/8/25 12:40, gene heskett wrote: > >>> in prep to do this edm stuff again a decade after the last time I used > >>> it, I did a cp -r go704-xyz go704-xyz-edm so that I could play at > >>> adding what I need to automate some or all of it. I then geany'd the > >>> .ini file to hard code some of the paths to isolate it, including the > >>> path to autosave.halscope. Then added the first two modules needed to > >>> get started on my idea, as extra names in a loadrt line, then added > >>> them to the addf list. blows up like a case of Alfreds finest. > >>> Starting with the autosave.halscope reporting an error for every line > >>> of its 29 line file even after I make it executable which cp didn't. > >>> This sytem also has the dregs of ncam ripped out but probably a > >>> dependency is looking for it anyway > >>> > >>> At startup of LINUXCNC - 2.10.0-pre0-3309-gfd6a133f8b, there is 8 > >>> copys of this, reporting the first rejected word of each line; > >>> APP: /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope > >>> found: </home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope> > >>> /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope: line 1: > >>> THREAD: command not found > >>> [...to] > >>> /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope: line 31: > >>> RMODE: command not found > >>> then 8 lines of: > >>> USRMOT: ERROR: command 30 timeout > >>> emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed > >>> emcTrajSetUnits failed to set [TRAJ]LINEAR_UNITS or [TRAJ]ANGULAR_UNITS > >>> [... 8 more of the above two] > >>> then this: > >>> note: MAXV max: 2.500 units/sec 150.000 units/min > >>> note: LJOG max: 2.500 units/sec 150.000 units/min > >>> note: LJOG default: 1.000 units/sec 60.000 units/min > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> emc/task/emctaskmain.cc 2996: can't initialize motion > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>> A configuration error is preventing LinuxCNC from starting. > >>> what did I or cp screw up?? FWIW the original go704-xyz stuff still > >>> runs, bitching about the missing camera that's plugged in and works > >>> fine with cheese. > >>> linuxcnc_print.txt says: > >>> Starting HAL User Interface program: halui > >>> DELAY= > >>> ini.traj_max_velocity still 0.0 after 20 seconds > >>> Starting DISPLAY program: axis > >>> Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules > >>> Removing NML shared memory segments > >>> Do I have to hard code the halui line in the ini file? > >>> > >>> Thanks all. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > 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. 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