I'm with Marcus. Having used most all the various flavors of Unix and
Linux over the last 30 years, updating seems to always leave issues that
are related to legacy programs and files. If you have that much stuff
on a LinuxCNC controller, might I suggest you find a less busy machine
that you can dedicate to being a LinuxCNC controller and use it only for
that, and leave the development stuff to another machine, off the actual
machine controller? The computers I have controlling machines do only
just that and nothing else. All the development I did over the years
was on other machines.
Mark
On 9/15/21 6:29 PM, John Dammeyer wrote:
I have too much other stuff installed on that PC to want to re-install the OS
with a new version that included LinuxCNC 2.8.
Had I not made the spelling mistake it's likely it would have worked. Once I effectively removed all of LinuxCNC 2.7 etc. using the tool along with removing from the repositories all instances of linuxcnc.org then it went well.
The tcl file wasn't in my home folder and that's why I get worried about upgrades. Removing 2.7.14 rather than upgrading it also removed the /usr/lib/linuxcnc tcl files.
Which means it's likely installing the live image wouldn't have helped either. The xhc-hb04 config files were in my config folder and weren't touched.
-----Original Message-----
From: marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk
[mailto:marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk]
Sent: September-15-21 2:32 PM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Safely Upgrading LinuxCNC
On 2021-09-15 22:10, John Dammeyer wrote:
It's rarely ever smooth or simple.
I have consistently found it is less painful and usually quicker to
simply download the whole live/install image and use that (after saving
INI files etc).
Life is too short, etc.
Marcus
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