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juschri
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6 years ago
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dos2unix fails to change permissions when creating project from template

Hello, I have searched all over for an answer to my problem, and while I've found similar questions none of the answers have worked. I have followed the instructions in "The Nios II Embedded "Hello W...
  • NickWilliams's avatar
    NickWilliams
    5 years ago

    I also ran into this problem. I did some debugging and the problem is that the dos2unix command tries to change the UNIX filesystem permissions of the temporary file it creates; this fails for me in WSL.

    You need to tell WSL that it should allow these kinds of operations on the filesystem. You can do this as follows:

    1. Start your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS prompt
    2. Create/edit a file '/etc/wsl.conf'
    3. Add the following to '/etc/wsl.conf':
      [automount]
options = "metadata"
    4. Save the file.
    5. Reboot your computer.

    I have no idea why this works for some people but not others, but this worked for me and fixed the dos2unix permissions error; at which points I was able to create the BSP and everything else in Nios II EDS worked fine.

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Eliath_G_Intel
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6 years ago

Hello @juschri Justin,

First of all, thank you for reaching us,

Please try the next KDB (Knowledge DataBase) and let me know who it worked and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to let me know.

Regards,

-Eliath Guzman

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    TrainMan
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    5 years ago

    Hi Eliath,

    I see it has been 2 months since you replied to Justin's question but I don't see a solution. Have you found one? I have this issue with Quartus lite v20.

    • NickWilliams's avatar
      NickWilliams
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      5 years ago

      I also ran into this problem. I did some debugging and the problem is that the dos2unix command tries to change the UNIX filesystem permissions of the temporary file it creates; this fails for me in WSL.

      You need to tell WSL that it should allow these kinds of operations on the filesystem. You can do this as follows:

      1. Start your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS prompt
      2. Create/edit a file '/etc/wsl.conf'
      3. Add the following to '/etc/wsl.conf':
        [automount]
options = "metadata"
      4. Save the file.
      5. Reboot your computer.

      I have no idea why this works for some people but not others, but this worked for me and fixed the dos2unix permissions error; at which points I was able to create the BSP and everything else in Nios II EDS worked fine.

      • jim12138's avatar
        jim12138
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        5 years ago

        Can you please provide how you did it? Is it in the command line? I can't seem to find anything