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OHarb1
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5 years ago

Crash in quartus_pgm

We're doing regression testing on a build server and we need to program the FPGA using quartus_pgm. However, we find that quartus_pgm is flaky. Is there a chance that the Quartus developers cou...
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JohnT_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,


If the cable is detach then I don't expect it to work. I would like to confirm if the setup is correct and it can be easily duplicate. The reason is that without the duplication we are not sure what is actually happening even with the Internal Error information.


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    OHarb1
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    5 years ago

    The bug here isn't that it doesn't work, but that it crashes without a helpful error message.

    There should be a helpful error message without the cable attached, not a crash.

    This may seem like a small thing, but when using FPGAs in automated test setups(which *should* be two for the par in 2020), then the logs are all you have to determine what the problem is.


    Can you reproduce a non-helpful error message without a cable attached?