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OHarb1
Occasional Contributor
Occasional ContributorCrash 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...
JohnT_Altera
Regular Contributor
Regular ContributorHi,
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.
OHarb1Occasional Contributor
Occasional ContributorThe 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?
