Hi Cerna,
Thanks for letting me try this version. The good news is, it installed, it opens up the "Linuxcnc configuration selector " page when I launch it from the command line. When I select a configuration the Banner for "Enhanced Machine controller" comes up. There is a linuxcnc folder in my home directory which has subfolders /configs and /nc_files each of which seem full with files. The configuration file I selected on the selector page has its own subfolder in the /configs folder with the correct hal and ini files. There is a shortcut on the desktop since I checked the box on the "Linuxcnc configuration selector".
The not so good news is that this is as far as it goes. At the first two launches the machine hung at this point and on restarting sent an error report to ubuntu. I did not record the details but it did mention about a kernel loop. The third and fourth time the machine did not hang, but it returned me to the terminal window with an error message that I have pasted below. It says it is a configuration error that is preventing it from running and it seems to be looking for a parport, however it might be more than that since the machine hung on the first two launches.
Some info on the installation. The first time I tried dpkg -i it seemed to remove all the :armhf packages. It then returned an error message re unmet dependencies. Then I did sudo --fix -broken install, this still gave an error message at the end of a long list of fixes, so I tried dpkg -i again and it installed.
Some other info, I don't see a .exe icon, I can only launch from the terminal. It doesn't seem to be on the list of installed software on the desktop. There doesn't seem to be a home/user1/linuxcnc_debug.txt or print.tex as mentioned at the end of this error message
user1@computer1:~$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.8.0~pre1
Machine configuration directory is '/home/user1/linuxcnc/configs/by_interface.parport.etch-servo'
Machine configuration file is 'etch.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
Found file(REL): ./etch.hal
Waiting for component 'trivkins' to become ready..Waited 3 seconds for master. giving up.
.Note: Using POSIX realtime
Unexpected realtime delay on task 0 with period 20000
This Message will only display once per session.
Run the Latency Test and resolve before continuing.
config string '0x378'
Linux parallel port @888 not found
invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
note: MAXV max: 30.000 units/sec 1800.000 units/min
note: LJOG max: 30.000 units/sec 1800.000 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>
Waiting for component 'inihal' to become ready..waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0>
.invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
.....waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0>
.....invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
........waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0>
...invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
..........invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
..........invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
..A configuration error is preventing LinuxCNC from starting.
More information may be available when running from a terminal.
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
........invalid inifile value for [TRAJ] HOME: 0 0
emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed
....HAL: ERROR: exit called before init
<commandline>:0: waitpid failed milltask inihal
<commandline>:0: milltask exited without becoming ready
Note: Using POSIX realtime
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/user1/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/user1/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
