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Altera_Forum
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7 years ago

Eclipse not starting in Linux version

I have done quite a bit of searching and I have not found a solution. When trying to open Eclipse Mars in Linux version 17.1, I get a segmentation fault error. Using valgrind, I find a strcat copy ...
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element4lifex8
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7 years ago

I was also experiencing this same error when trying to run the eclipse-nios2 executable on Ubuntu 17.10 with both Quartus 17.1 and 18.0.0. Turns out I combined a solution from this this old Altera support forum post

https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00003yyOP3SAM/niosiiide-not-working-in-120-linux

and this Xilinx forum post

https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Embedded-Development-Tools/Vivado-2016-3-SDK-launches-with-a-segmentation-fault/m-p/729055#M40368

The solution consisted of downloading some 32bit gtk libraries mentioned in the Altera forum post, and setting the SWT_GTK3 env var equal to 0. After both of these steps I could open the eclipse-nios2 executable just fine.