Error by startup 4 axis machine

Hey crazy guys, please excuse my bad English .

Sorry, I have seen the problem was often discuss !
I have to read some threads but I didn't find the solution for my problem.

Since two years ago, I am use a 3 axis milling machine with EMC2 without problems.
In the last month I upgrade my machine with an second X/Y Portal, so I have two parallel X/Y portal with 4 axis for foam cutting.

I made a new (Simulation)Configuration for the 4 axis machine but it will not run, I became only an error message.

I hope anybody found my failure and can help me.


Here are the Copy from the error window.
In the appendix still hal and ini file.

THX a Lot.

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
EMC2_DIR=
EMC2_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
EMC2_TCL_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl
EMC2_SCRIPT_DIR=
EMC2_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2
EMC2_CONFIG_DIR=
EMC2_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
EMC2_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.5
EMC2 - 2.4.6
Machine configuration directory is '/home/frank/emc2/configs/Meine-Styro-Maschine'
Machine configuration file is 'Meine-Styro-Maschine.ini'
INIFILE=/home/frank/emc2/configs/Meine-Styro-Maschine/Meine-Styro-Maschine.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=emc.var
EMCMOT=motmod
EMCIO=io
TASK=milltask
HALUI=
DISPLAY=axis
NML_FILE=
Starting EMC2...
Starting EMC2 server program: emcsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting EMC2 IO program: io
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Killing task emcsvr, PID=4501
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Meine-Styro-Maschine.hal:1: Unknown command ''
4501
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Kernel message information:
[ 3965.104135] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[ 3965.104139] RTAI[hal]: <3.8.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.6-03.
[ 3965.104140] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) .
[ 3965.104158] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[ 3965.104160] PIPELINE layers:
[ 3965.104161] ff795e20 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[ 3965.104163] c085cb20 0 Linux 100
[ 3965.116033] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[ 3965.116111] RTAI[sched]: IMMEDIATE, MP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[ 3965.116114] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = APIC/20833237(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[ 3965.116116] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 3333475000 hz.
[ 3965.116118] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 999 ns, resched latency = 2944 ns.
[ 3965.116159] RTAI[usi]: enabled.
[ 3965.139247] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[ 3965.364323] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[ 3965.382308] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[ 3965.412206] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[ 3965.512009] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[ 3965.513794] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[ 3965.513816] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.

Hi

This is the error

Meine-Styro-Maschine.hal:1: Unknown command ''

If you load your hal file into a proper Linux editor, there is a stray unprintable charactor which is rendered as a dot in front of the # on line one

Delete that, or the whole line and it should run

regards

PS

In fact if you put it through a Hex editor, there are 3 unprintable chars before the 0x23h char which is a #





If you edited this in a windoze editor or word processor, then this is why you should not
This range of charactors are used in unicode with languages that have charactors with diaeresis etc, so that could be something to do with it.

Thank you for the tip, I never have to find that.

I have clean the hal file and search at the similar failure in the ini,
but emc don't run.
The error message is the same.
Here the copy of the error window and the cleaned files.

THK for your Job.

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
EMC2_DIR=
EMC2_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
EMC2_TCL_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl
EMC2_SCRIPT_DIR=
EMC2_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2
EMC2_CONFIG_DIR=
EMC2_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
EMC2_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.5
EMC2 - 2.4.6
Machine configuration directory is '/home/frank/emc2/configs/Meine-Styro-Maschine'
Machine configuration file is 'Meine-Styro-Maschine.ini'
INIFILE=/home/frank/emc2/configs/Meine-Styro-Maschine/Meine-Styro-Maschine.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=emc.var
EMCMOT=motmod
EMCIO=io
TASK=milltask
HALUI=
DISPLAY=axis
NML_FILE=
Starting EMC2...
Starting EMC2 server program: emcsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting EMC2 IO program: io
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Killing task emcsvr, PID=7164
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Meine-Styro-Maschine.hal:5: Empty variable name.
7164
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Kernel message information:
[14531.457888] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[14531.457892] RTAI[hal]: <3.8.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.6-03.
[14531.457894] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) .
[14531.457912] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[14531.457914] PIPELINE layers:
[14531.457915] fef55e20 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[14531.457917] c085cb20 0 Linux 100
[14531.469619] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[14531.469696] RTAI[sched]: IMMEDIATE, MP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[14531.469699] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = APIC/20833237(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[14531.469701] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 3333475000 hz.
[14531.469703] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 999 ns, resched latency = 2944 ns.
[14531.469746] RTAI[usi]: enabled.
[14531.493430] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[14531.723738] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[14531.742167] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[14531.772205] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[14531.872010] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[14531.873766] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[14531.873787] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.

Thank you for the tip, I never have to find that.

I have clean the hal file and search at the similar failure in the ini,
but emc don't run.
The error message is the same.

No the message is not the same

Meine-Styro-Maschine.hal:5: Empty variable name.

This time you have a carraige return in the wrong place, pushing the variable 'SERVO PERIOD' onto line 6

(line 5) loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]
(line 6) SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES

Change it to

(line 5) loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD
(line 6) num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES

and hopefully will now run

regards

So the Simulation RUN
I delete the first lines, then there came three new mistakes that, however, I could repair.

Thank you for your support.

Best regards FR