Error running quartus : Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss

I installed quartus 9.1 on an upto date FC12 system, and it gives me a similar issue on starting quartus

$ which quartus

/tools/altera/9.1/quartus/bin/quartus

$ quartus

19/05 12:41:53 [# 1] ->

RPCSS ServiceMain failed with 1702 (000006a6)

The binding handle is invalid.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The quartus logo appears for few seconds and then it dies.

Any ideas which package I need to remove. It seems like RPCSS is a windows issue on googling, is this some thing related to wine. I checked the list of processes using ps, no command name with rpcss. The closest I found are

root 1188 2 0 11:40 ? 00:00:00 [rpciod/0]

root 1189 2 0 11:40 ? 00:00:00 [rpciod/1]

Any ideas?

i am running web edition 9.1sp2 on FC12 without problems (after removing 2 .so in the Quartus install as mentioned in some other threads).

are you using web or subscription edition? if subscription try running mwcleanup (also in $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/bin).

I forgot to paste the solution, now that I got this problem on a new machine, I am posting it here. The Fedora linux distro FC13 (11,12 too) by default puts machine name (abcd here) in /etc/hosts

as first line

127.0.0.1 abcd.domain.com abcd localhost.localdomain localhost

The line should be either

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

or the line commented out altogether to get rid of this error.

You all need machine ip in there.

192.168.1.xx abcd.domain.com abcd

mine looks like your modified version also, i can't remember if i changed it from default

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

Having the same problem; prior to it, 9.1 ran fine on this machine for close to 8 months.

FC12, x64. Ran mwcleanup, didn't help. Any other ideas?

it was working fine and then just stopped?

must have been a change in a yum update. did you take a look at your /etc/hosts as mentioned above?

Yep, /etc/hosts look fine. Probably a yum update caused it. I wish I knew how to debug this - MainWin documentation is scarce, and Altera will probably wave it off, since they only support RHEL...

BTW, happens both on 9.1 and 9.1.2; 10.0 and 10.0.1 run fine.

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I forgot to paste the solution, now that I got this problem on a new machine, I am posting it here. The Fedora linux distro FC13 (11,12 too) by default puts machine name (abcd here) in /etc/hosts

as first line

127.0.0.1 abcd.domain.com abcd localhost.localdomain localhost

The line should be either

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

or the line commented out altogether to get rid of this error.

You all need machine ip in there.

192.168.1.xx abcd.domain.com abcd

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Thank you that solved my problem :)

Details:

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, and installed Altera NiosII IDE and Quartus (both version 9.0)

my /etc/hosts content was (when Quarts was giving "Segmentation fault"):

192.168.0.57 MirDesktop# Added by NetworkManager

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

::1 MirDesktop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

127.0.1.1 MirDesktop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

When commenting row 3 and 4, everything works fine, my /etc/hosts looks now:

192.168.0.57 MirDesktop# Added by NetworkManager

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

#::1 MirDesktop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

#127.0.1.1 MirDesktop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Hope this will help someone :)

Thank you