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thank you for the report.
If you run PNCconf from a terminal it will give more specific messages to why this happens.

probably a HAL name spelled wrong

Yeah looks like it's a different version of the same problem -
XML 7i77 TXData3 SMARTSERIAL-P2-TX
XML 7i77 RXData3 SMARTSERIAL-P2-RX
XML 7i77 TXData2 7i77 sserial #2
XML 7i77 RXData2 SMARTSERIAL-P1-RX
XML 7i77 TXData1 7i77 sserial #1
XML 7i77 RXData1 SMARTSERIAL-P0-RX
XML 7i77 TXData6 SMARTSERIAL-P5-TX
XML 7i77 RXData6 SMARTSERIAL-P5-RX
XML 7i77 TXData5 7i77 sserial #5
XML 7i77 RXData5 SMARTSERIAL-P4-RX
XML 7i77 TXData4 7i77 sserial #4
XML 7i77 RXData4 SMARTSERIAL-P3-RX
hm2_5i25.0.encoder.03
<stdin>:12: Pin 'hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1..analogena' does not exist
insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/scope_rt.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
<commandline>:0: exit value: 1
<commandline>:0: insmod failed, returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for more information.
loadrt scope_rt failed

two periods on the analogena pin?.. Perhaps not. I don't know what's screwed up here.

I tried removing the . before analogena in two instances in the pncconf code but that just resulted in a different error.

Also noticed that despite the fact that the spindle encoder counts can be read in HAL meter in AXIS, Axis does not seem to display a rotation speed. "Velocity" reads 0 but I'm not sure if that's supposed to be spindle speed or traverse speed.

What was ther error?
I found the two line you are talking of - yes the period must be removed.

As for the spindle speed are you talking of the gladvcp or pyvcp display option or something else?

The terminal messages "hm2_5i25.0.encoder.03
<stdin>:13: setp requires 2 arguments, 8 given
RTAPI: ERROR: could not open shared memory (errno=2)" come up when I initiate the open loop test dialog but I don't get anything more useful after that. The error message box comes up when I hit the "Enable Amp" button and says "PNCConf encountered an error. The following information may be useful in troubleshooting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pncconf/", line 9107, in on_enable_toggled
self.update_axis_params()
File "/usr/bin/pncconf/", line 9077, in update_axis_params
halrun.flush()

IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe"

As far as the spindle speed display issue I'm seeing, I'm not sure how to answer your question because I'm not familiar enough with those yet. What happens is, if I start LinuxCNC and select the only configuration I've made with PNCConf and then I manually switch on my spindle (through my VFD), I don't see the "Velocity: 0" number in the black display area of AXIS change at all. If I start HAL meter though I can see the spindle encoder count increasing.

Another issue with PNCConf that I've noticed is that every time I run it, it resets the configuration to 2x 7i76, 12 encoders, 6 channels. The Smart Serial Tabs appear to still be correct though. I have to manually switch it back to 2x 7i77, 6 encoders, 3 channels every time.
Thanks,
Max

ahh it looks like I forgot to add a bunch of /n on some lines near the double period errors.

I will look at the code for the number of components.

Thanks you for your patient help here