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6 years 7 months ago #159715 by islander261
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Hello

I am back from the sunny southwest and have a fresh 5,000 lb stack of steel that needs to be cut. I splurged and bought hot rolled pickled and oiled stock (no mill scale) at half the price of my last load, I have trouble with using an angle grinder now.

I have missed quite a bit on the PlasmaC front since last summers run in with MS. The OT folks have done a good job at helping my right hand work again (retraining). I still can hardly write and touch typing is gone, If the numbness would only go away I might have a chance at the later. I am very fortunate in that I still have full mobility other than my right wrist and hand.

I have PlasmaC V 0.79 currently installed on my controller. I am currently running the master branch on Debian Jesse with a RIP install. Will I need to make any changes to my current SheetCam PP if I upgrade to the latest version on the master branch? Will the newer version break my configuration? I don't really have time for a science project right now.

TIA

John

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6 years 7 months ago #159723 by phillc54
Replied by phillc54 on topic Update Plasmac?
Hi John, glad to see that you are able to be back to doing some cutting.

I "think" the only change that may break anything is v0.090 in January which renamed some HAL pins. The versions list is here and it names the pins that were changed. If you have done any custom HEL connections using these then that will require some change.

I am pretty sure your PP should still be OK. There is a PP here but I don't know if it would suit what you do.

Cheers, Phill.

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6 years 7 months ago #159768 by rodw
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John, I am sure your PP will be fine You wrote it about the same time I wrote mine and I have not changed mine. As for the pins changing I don't know. I'm not on the latest version but have never got tangled up with an upgrade yet.

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6 years 7 months ago #159796 by islander261
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Thanks guys I will update later today.

John

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6 years 7 months ago #159904 by islander261
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Well I updated my master branch installation with no apparent problems.

I ran configurator.py with no apparent problems.

When I try and start Plasmac I get this (a new one on me):
Code:
jd@plasma1 ~/linuxcnc-dev $ uname -a Linux plasma1 4.1.15-rt17mah #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Feb 26 23:43:49 PST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux jd@plasma1 ~/linuxcnc-dev $ linuxcnc LINUXCNC - 2.9.0~pre0 Machine configuration directory is '/home/jd/linuxcnc/configs/my_plasmac' Machine configuration file is 'my_plasmac.ini.expanded' Starting LinuxCNC... twopass:invoked with <> options twopass:found ./plasmac.tcl twopass:found /home/jd/linuxcnc-dev/lib/hallib/xhc-hb04_plasmac.tcl twopass:found ./my_plasmac_connections.hal xhc-hb04_plasmac.tcl: suppressing messages in twopass pass0 twopass:pass0: loadusr -W xhc-hb04 -s 2 -I /home/jd/linuxcnc-dev/lib/hallib/xhc-hb04-layout2.cfg -H xhc-hb04: waiting for XHC-HB04 device xhc-hb04: found XHC-HB04 device Note: Using POSIX realtime HAL: ERROR: thread 'servo-thread' not found twopass: Error in file ./plasmac.tcl: addf failed HAL: ERROR: thread 'servo-thread' not found twopass: Error in file /tmp/tmp_xhc-hb04_plasmac.tcl: addf failed HAL: ERROR: thread 'servo-thread' not found twopass: Error in file ./my_plasmac_connections.hal: addf failed Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... xhc-hb04: connection lost, cleaning up Note: Using POSIX realtime LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log: /home/jd/linuxcnc_debug.txt and /home/jd/linuxcnc_print.txt as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal jd@plasma1 ~/linuxcnc-dev $

Anyone have an idea about where to start looking for problems? No obvious clues in log files.

John

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6 years 7 months ago #159929 by cmorley
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post your config files

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6 years 7 months ago #159935 by islander261
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Ok, here are my configs. Please remember this was a working system prior to updating the master branch and running configurator.py. I did the update on Tuesday.

John

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6 years 7 months ago #159938 by islander261
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more files

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6 years 7 months ago #159941 by cmorley
Replied by cmorley on topic Update Plasmac?
on a cursory look, I don't see anywhere that loads threads or kiinamatics.

loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[KINS]JOINTS

Which would explain the error message (missing servo-thread)

But I don't use twopass HAL files so it's a bit unrecognizable.

Do you still have a running copy of the old files?

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6 years 7 months ago #159949 by phillc54
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I think Chris is correct, you seem to be missing the HAL file for your base machine.
Code:
[HAL] # required TWOPASS = ON # the base machine #HALFILE = plasmac.tcl # the plasmac component connections HALFILE = plasmac.tcl HALFILE = LIB:xhc-hb04_plasmac.tcl # the plasmac machine connections HALFILE = my_plasmac_connections.hal # use this for customisation after GUI has loaded POSTGUI_HALFILE = postgui.hal # required HALUI = halui

Is it possible your original HAL file was named plasmac.tcl which is what PlasmaC uses as the name for the HAL file for the connections to the plasmac component.

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