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

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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