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12 years ago

DS-5 unable to connect (C5-SoC). FLEXnet Licensing error: -88

Hello, I have recently attended to a SoCKit workshop to have the first contact with the Cyclone V SoC architecture. Some days later I tried to go again through the steps of the hands-on to be a...
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12 years ago

I set the problem aside some time but finally I got to solve it. This FLEXnet is an utility which monitores if a certain licensed program is running under a clean PC. That means that it will catch some common "tricks" to evade the licenses limitations and avoid any licensed program to run in such a machine.

In my case, it detected that I had a file modified after the actual date. It interpreted thus that I had changed the date of the machine and that I could be trying to abuse the license.

I could not solve this problem without a format of the whole machine.

In my case, the conflictive file was something inside my TINA-TI installation which I did not modify myself and had a creation data in 2017. Just removing it and reinstalling the whole Altera software did not help.