Re: EMC - now getting desperate!

"Ian W. Wright" wrote:

> From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I still haven't managed to get EMC to do anything sensible. I don't
> think the problem is with EMC itself but rather with linux - or at
> least, my command of it. For some reason, when I try to run any of the
> script files, I get a message of 'no such file or directory'.

The bash shell has a funny syntax to run scripts or executables that are
not 'registered' to the shell. You use ./filename (that is period followed by forward
slash) which means (.) in the current directory, (/) find a file (filename)

> This has
> now gone one step further to add to my frustration. I re-typed Tim's
> 'run.mymill' file which did not improve the situation and so I copied
> most of his text onto a fresh file into which I had typed the first
> couple of lines. When I tried to run it, it started, told me emc was
> already running and that it was cleaning it up and then started to 'load
> the motion modules'. At this point it gave me the now almost inevitable
> message 'no such file or directory' as it tried to load steppermod.o.
> When I then did a 'ls -l /usr/src/emc/plat/rtlinux_09J/lib/steppermod.o'
> I got the reply:
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 4117 9819851 Jul26 23:08
> plat/rtlinux_09J/lib/steppermod.o
> which would seem to indicate to me that the file really is there!

well, clearly steppermod.o really is in /usr/src/emc/plat/rtlinux_09J/lib,
but is that where the script is calling for it? Or, is the script calling for
it from another location, like /lib or /usr/lib ?

You can do the intire script typing in each command by hand, to find
out exactly where it is trying to pull a file from the wrong directory.
The file modes look right. Are you running as 'root' or with 'root' priveledges?
You either need to do that, or give root priveledges to all kernel modules,
and have the system pre-install them at boot time.

> Can some kind soul PLEASE put me out of my misery and explain what is
> going wrong - is my computer rejecting me??

Unfortunately, I fought this battle too long ago to remember all the fine
details. I wish I was looking over your shoulder, I could try things pretty
quickly.

Jon