Linuxcnc & the Raspberry Pi (4 & 5) Official Images Only!!!

One thing you can try is logging in via ssh, before things lockup, and when they do see if anything untoward shows up in dmesg or any of the other log files.

Does it occur when just running one of the sims from the Linuxcnc menus.

Are you able to use a config that uses Axis, if so does this give the same problems.

Just to confirm your are using one of the images from the downloads page, without an extra packages installed, cos I'm not sure if ctrl-esc gets the task manager. On the RPi5.which is the same apart from the kernel support, it doesn't bring up a task manager.

Before the title was changed, it was mainly to do with the Linuxcnc images, not Linuxcnc on Raspberry Pi OS.


Tommy if you see this can you change the topic heading so it reflects this is support for the Official Linuxcnc Rpi Images, I didn't intend for it to support Linuxcnc on the Raspberry Pi OS. That should be dealt with elsewhere.
I'm pretty sure the original tile reflected that.

Is this OK or any better idea?

I used the image from this page. The only other thing I added was Filezilla, to transfer files to and from my PC where I generate the gcode files.

And yes, pressing Ctrl-esc brings up the main rPi menu where I can select to run other applications. If I have LinuxCNC up, I can use that to launch Filezilla without exiting LinuxCNC. That functionality has to my knowledge always existed in the image.

Like I said before, log in via SSH, wifi it would have to be, run Linuxcnc as you would and if things lock up and SSH is still good start with dmesg then looking through logs.
Also it would be interesting to know if this happens when using axis.
A lot of the investigation will have to be done by yourself.
Obviously it's not a complete machine lockup, as you reported your pendant can still be used to move the machine, so Linuxcnc is able to receive and transmit to your mesa card.
What happens when the machine is left idle without a Linuxcnc session running ?
If are unable, unwilling to address the queries in this post and my previous post I'm afraid I can't offer any help.

So after further testing I can tell you that the axis GUI is rock solid. No issues when left for extended periods of time.  When I get some more time I will use SSH to poke around when running GMOCCAPY.

Might be worth trying in the GMOCCAPY Section, even linking back to the issue in this thread.

Was thinking about this last night, it may be worth looking at this regarding swap. Just on the off chance.

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...only?start=30#322251