Axis Gui will no longer home X and Z (lathe)

Reinstalled Wheezy and all is good. Probably nothing in Buster that I need anyway. After dealing with computers in general since before IBM came out with the PC, I have found many things that should have but didn't just work.

Thank you for your reply.

The difference here is that you are talking to the chap whose job it is to make it work. The 2.8.2 conversion script is mine, and I am interested to know why it failed with your config.

Would you like for me to try to reinstall and try again. I don't know why I wanted to upgrade but I did. Since I now know the head man I should be able to get it going.

1. I did the initial setup of the lathe using the default config.
2.That would not home. I would show the homed icon next to the axis. When trying to set the offset it would respond with cannot do with out axis homed.
3.Then setup using the config utility. Only selection i made or edited was to tell it I had a Sherline lathe. I "think" that was all I changed/made. Would not let me test the axes.
4.At that point it would home and let me use the touch off. Could manually move axes.
5.Loaded file (good file). It would start running and the stepper would click every now and then and after quite a few clicks the axis would move maybe .002-.005".
6. Two problems was my limit so I just reinstalled Wheezy and went back to work. No problems.

I have communicated with you in the past through some way or another. Did you have anything to do with CamBam about 8-10 years ago?

I went back and read your message again. You speak of a conversion script. I did not do a conversion, I did a complete reinstall from a CD.

You should have been able to update to 2.8.2 and use the same config flles as you were using before, no need to go back to defaults.

ie, save your "linuxcnc" folder, install 2.8.2 then reinstate the "linuxcnc" folder (with your configs and G-code). When you start LinuxCNC a one-time script will run to make any required configuration changes.

You can update _just_ LinuxCNC on your Wheezy machine to 2.8.2 if you want.

I tried to update from within Wheezy using software update and got an error message similar to "repository no longer exists, out of date xxxxx days xxxxx hours xxxx minutes or something similar to that.
Is there some other way that I am (sure) that I do not how to use. I am very limited in knowledge of Linux.

The LinuxCNC update is independent of the Wheezy repositories.

linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-st...e_to_the_new_version