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meenalkb's avatar
meenalkb
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5 years ago

Error occurs starting Nios II SBT (18.4) after installing plugins through Eclipse marketplace

I would like to install some plugins into Nios II SBT 18.4.

Specifically, these are the Percepio Tracealyzer plugin and the Micrium uC Probe plugin.

However, I get the following error message when the IDE attempts to restart after the installation - (this has now happened with both plugins): "An error has occurred. See the log file <...>.log. Then the IDE will not restart at all, until I go and physically delete the C:\Users\<user>\.altera.sbt4e folder.

I have attached a log file. Would anyone be able to help me debug this issue? Many thanks.

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  • FredSkar's avatar
    FredSkar
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    5 years ago

    Hello,

    The Nios IDE uses a way to old Eclipse version. So the plugin doesn't work but if I remember right the IDE should still start. My suggestion is to uninstall the plugin and then you take a memory dump manually from the IDE and save it as a .bin or .hex file. Then you can open it in Tracealyzer.

    • meenalkb's avatar
      meenalkb
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      5 years ago

      Thank you. I have successfully used the method you described, for Tracealyzer. However, the same issue applies to the other plugin(s) I would like to install.

      I am hoping someone from Intel will reply and tell me about when Nios II SBT is going to be updated to a newer version of Eclipse? Is there a way I can request this?

      • BoonBengT_Altera's avatar
        BoonBengT_Altera
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        5 years ago

        Hi @meenalkb,

        Thank you for posting in Intel community forum, hope this message find you well and apologies for the delayed in response.
        Eclipse for NIOS II is based on the publicly available eclipse, per my understanding there should be nothing that have been introduced to explicitly stop the plugin from working, but unfortunately we do not perform any interoperability testing with the plugin mention.

        Upon some investigation, suspecting that the eclipse mars upon plugin installation, the rebuilding the files might have cause some files corruption.
        Found this particular workaround in the nets, can you please try to see if that helps:
        - Start fresh from a working version of NIOS 2.
        - Installed the plugin, but do not restart the application.
        - Close the NIOS SBT manually.
        - Navigate to the profiles (i.e. C:\Users\<user>\.altera.sbt4e\<quartusversion>-windows64\configuration) folder.
        - There should be a 'org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator''org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.old'
        - Try to start NIOS sbt and check if plugin are available.

        As for updates on the newer version of eclipse, as of now I have not heard of any updates from the relevant team, allow me to check again and reconfirm on this.
        Please do try and let us know if that helps.

        Warm regards.
        BB