Linuxcnc always wants to update my INI file

i did it via the selection menu but i had the same problem

Can you zip up the config folder and attach it, I will see if I can tell what is going on.

Hello
Here is config zip

This looks like a bug with the "GetFromIni" code in Linuxcnc

The simple workaround for you is to add a blank line (or a comment) before the [EMC] section of the INI.
For some reason if the very first line in the file is the [EMC] section it fails to find it.

I will try to fix that.

But you should be able to just add a line to Fenja.ini and all will be well.

I think the problem is that the ini file was edited with
some program that adds a BOM "byte order mark" (efbb bf) at
the beginning of the file and the parsing in inifile.cc does
not handle BOMs -- not expected in linux.

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

A brief web search notes that the dos2unix program fixes this:

I did look for whitespace in the editor, but the BOM is new to me.
But would certainly mess up the parser that looks for a lie beginning [EMC]

That said, a blank line fixes the issue easily, moving the BOM to an irrelevant line.

Thanks for the solution. It worked! I wrote a comment in line one that reminds me not to delete this line