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15 years ago

Error while executing Nios Shell

Hi all, I am using a quite old version, Quartus 4.2 along with Nios 3.2 SDK shell. The operating system is Windows Vista. While executing the Nios SDK shell, an error message is sh...
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15 years ago

you can search for the line:

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

the problem is probably with the cygwin backend. there's a list of apps that clash with cygwin and can cause that fork issue:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

newer Altera software may solve the issue :)