Fresh Install, LinuxCNC application won't start.
31 Aug 2015 08:12 - 12 Sep 2015 09:38 #61929
by cnccircuits
Fresh Install, LinuxCNC application won't start. was created by cnccircuits
Hi, Im having some trouble getting LinuxCNC 2.6.4 running on my Asus m4a89gtd pro/usb3 (socket AM3) motherboard -
specs
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When the OS begins to load it gets to a "loading.. please wait" screen then sits, then, shows this message (twice):
after which it continues to load to the login GUI and I am amble to use things like the web browser (currently am) and terminal emulators, just about anything not related to the CNC suite. However every time I attempt to load the LinuxCNC interface -or- run a latency test from stepconf wizard the entire system halts, the mouse still pans around but all i see is a black shell with some log text.. Power button is unresponsive, CTRL+AlT+F1 unresponsive, CTRL+ALT+T unresponsive, you get the idea..
I should mention that the Asus m4a89gtd pro/usb3 motherboard does not have an onboard LPT port! And maybe that's the root of my issue?? I am not sure if this board was a good choice but it seems to run Ubuntu 10.04 just fine.
And just for the record this past Saturday night I lost my good old CNC PC (due to age) so I was forced to try the live install on my other PC which I had connected to my 3D printer.
I understood that there was no parallel port and I just wanted to see if it could run but have not yet been able to verify.
However in order to remedy the problem of not having the LPT port issue on my Asus board I have just ordered a Sunix 4018A dual parallel port PCI card from Ebay and it should be here soon.
I'm now hoping to be able to have a nicer PC that I can both design on and run my CNC/3D printer software
but whatever this is that's keeping LinuxCNC from starting is kinda bumming me out 
I have attached the full dmesg output as a file named dmesg.txt for refrence.
Any suggestions would be appreciated? And Thanks!
When the OS begins to load it gets to a "loading.. please wait" screen then sits, then, shows this message (twice):
"""
[ 35.046580] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 35.046626] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 35.538116] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 36.340115] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 37.140487] ata3: EH complete
[ 68.116883] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 68.116936] ata3.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[ 68.116985] ata3.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
[ 68.116986] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 68.117084] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
"""after which it continues to load to the login GUI and I am amble to use things like the web browser (currently am) and terminal emulators, just about anything not related to the CNC suite. However every time I attempt to load the LinuxCNC interface -or- run a latency test from stepconf wizard the entire system halts, the mouse still pans around but all i see is a black shell with some log text.. Power button is unresponsive, CTRL+AlT+F1 unresponsive, CTRL+ALT+T unresponsive, you get the idea..
I should mention that the Asus m4a89gtd pro/usb3 motherboard does not have an onboard LPT port! And maybe that's the root of my issue?? I am not sure if this board was a good choice but it seems to run Ubuntu 10.04 just fine.
And just for the record this past Saturday night I lost my good old CNC PC (due to age) so I was forced to try the live install on my other PC which I had connected to my 3D printer.
I understood that there was no parallel port and I just wanted to see if it could run but have not yet been able to verify.
However in order to remedy the problem of not having the LPT port issue on my Asus board I have just ordered a Sunix 4018A dual parallel port PCI card from Ebay and it should be here soon.
I'm now hoping to be able to have a nicer PC that I can both design on and run my CNC/3D printer software
but whatever this is that's keeping LinuxCNC from starting is kinda bumming me out I have attached the full dmesg output as a file named dmesg.txt for refrence.
Any suggestions would be appreciated? And Thanks!
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31 Aug 2015 22:49 - 31 Aug 2015 22:56 #61944
by cnccircuits
Replied by cnccircuits on topic Fresh Install, LinuxCNC application won't start.
Thanks ArcEye for those recommendations. As soon as i saw your reply I jumped out of bed and read through that link you provided, then tried adding that command to a newly created file called "options.conf" in the "/etc/modprobe.d/" directory. rebooted and still got the errors. so i tried changing a bunch of ACPI and CPU related settings in the BIOS but nothing had any effect. As of now I have reset my BIOS and deleted the options.conf file 
I hope this is true as it sounds (relatively) easy to fix, however nowhere else in ubuntu do i experience problems, only the CNC related stuff. And this happens both on live and local installs.This is a hard drive error, what you try to access is coincidental.
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