whb not showing up?

I double checked and it's right.
xhc-whb04b-6.hal

The strange thing is in your original post you're saying "So when I open up Linuxcnc and go to Show Hal Configuration, then click on pins, there is no whb there"

Which is completely at odds as to what the error log is reporting.
You need to report this as an error to the devs.

Is file in your actual config directory or is it in a sub folder within your config dir? (Just making sure since you said "Yes that folder is in with" not the "file".) It can't be in a sub directory (unless you specify the path to it.)

I still can't understand why the user appears to claim Linuxcnc is opening yet the error log shows that it isn't and is shutting down due to an error.
So either the user hasn't described the problem correctly or there is a serious error. Or I've misinterpreted his opening post.

Could we have the output of this command:

It only opens up if I remove the
HALFILE xhc-whb04b-6.hal
Out of the ini file.
Sorry I should have mentioned that.
And now that I'm starting to understand this a bit more, the whb won't show up if that's not in the ini file. And it needs to be able to connect with the the other file in the configuration. Am I correct on this?
I really appreciate you guys helping me out, I'm not very computer savvy as you have probably already figured out.

According to the error, either the file name or file's location isn't correct. Once you fix that it "should" work.

Alternatively you could copy and paste the contents of the "xhc-whb04b-6.hal" file to the end of of your "custom.hal" file. then remove the reference to the "xhc-whb04b-6.hal" from your ini file.

OK great, thanks a million, I will do that when I get home tonight.
Thanks Mike

I tried to rewrite the file names just incase they where a dash instead of a minus sign and this is what I get.


The file: /tmp/linuxcnc_info.txt
can be posted to a forum or a web site like:
pastebin.com
in order to provide information about the linuxcnc
system and configuration.

Date: Wed Oct 21 17:02:54 EDT 2020
UTC Date: Wed Oct 21 21:02:54 UTC 2020
this program: /usr/bin/linuxcnc_info
uptime: 17:02:54 up 53 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.44, 0.53
lsb_release -sa: LinuxMint Linuxcnc Uspace Powered by Linux Mint 19.2 Tina 19.2 tina
which linuxcnc: /usr/bin/linuxcnc
pwd: /home/mike/linuxcnc/configs/my_LinuxCNC_machine
USER: mike
LOGNAME: mike
HOME: /home/mike
EDITOR:
VISUAL:
LANGUAGE: en_CA:en
TERM: dumb
COLORTERM:
DISPLAY: :0
DESKTOP: mate
display size: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
PATH: /usr/bin:/home/mike/linuxcnc/configs/my_LinuxCNC_machine/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

uname items:
nodename -n: cnc
kernel-name -s: Linux
kernel-vers -v: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Mar 5 00:02:34 AEDT 2020
machine -m: x86_64
processor -p: x86_64
platform -i: x86_64
oper system -o: GNU/Linux

/proc items:
cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.106-rt44-lcnc root=UUID=dc295af9-e1cf-45c8-a78c-4ecf9396287e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
cores: 2
cpu MHz: 2005.318
parport: 0000-0000 : parport0 0000-0000 : parport0 0000-0000 : parport0
serial: 0000-0000 : serial

Versions:
gcc: gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0
python: Python 2.7.17
git: git version 2.17.1
git commit: NA
tcl: 8.6
tk: 8.6
glade: not_in_PATH
glade-gtk2: not_in_PATH

linuxcnc_var all:

LINUXCNCVERSION: 2.8.0~pre1
LINUXCNC_AUX_GLADEVCP: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_gladevcp
LINUXCNC_AUX_EXAMPLES: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_examples
REALTIME: /etc/init.d/realtime
RTS: uspace
HALLIB_DIR: /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib

dpkg -l '*linuxcnc*':
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================-============================-============-=====================================================================
un linuxcnc <none> <none> (no description available)
un linuxcnc-dev <none> <none> (no description available)
un linuxcnc-doc <none> <none> (no description available)
ii linuxcnc-doc-en 1:2.8.0~pre1.5904.gf7b17e195 all motion controller for CNC machines and robots (English documentation)
un linuxcnc-sim <none> <none> (no description available)
un linuxcnc-sim-dev <none> <none> (no description available)
ii linuxcnc-uspace 1:2.8.0~pre1.5904.gf7b17e195 amd64 motion controller for CNC machines and robots
ii linuxcnc-uspace-dev 1:2.8.0~pre1.5904.gf7b17e195 amd64 PC based motion controller for real-time Linux

Could we have the output of this command:

Here is what I got.

ike@cnc:~$ ls -la /home/mike/linuxcnc/configs/my_LinuxCNC_machine/
total 76
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Oct 21 17:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 mike mike 4096 Oct 21 16:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 mike mike 4096 Jul 5 17:31 backups
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 108 Jul 5 17:31 custom_gvcp.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 0 Oct 21 17:08 custom.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 111 Jul 5 17:31 custom_postgui.hal
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 1669 Oct 20 18:50 linuxcnc.var
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 1669 Oct 20 18:50 linuxcnc.var.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 19993 Oct 21 17:08 my_LinuxCNC_machine.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 3878 Oct 21 17:07 my_LinuxCNC_machine.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 87 Jan 28 2018 postgui_call_list.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 105 Jul 5 17:31 shutdown.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 32 Jan 28 2018 tool.tbl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 8965 Oct 21 17:01 xhc-whb04b-6.hal