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11 years ago

MegaWizard Plug-In Manager hangs when making a PLL (Quartus II v14.1.1)

The following problem is completely repeatable:

Within Quartus, in IP Catalog window (default position on right of screen)select: Installed IP -> Library -> Basic Functions -> Clocks; PLLs and Resets -> PLL -> ALTPLL

dialog: Save IP Variation

file name: /home/rac/FPGA/my_first_fpga/pll.v

file type: Verilog

window: MegaWizard Plug-In Manager [page 1 of 12]select speed grade: 6

try to change the input clock frequency

WINDOW IS NOW UNRESPONSIVE

Nothing in the MegaWizard window is active, and if I cover/uncover it with another window, it won't update.

I can eventually close the MegaWizard window using the close box in the upper right window frame.I then get the dialog: Metacity

MegaWizard Plug-In Mnager [page 1 of 12] is not responding.

choose Force Quit or Wait

With a Force Quit, I am back in the Quartus main window and I can exit normally.

My system and install:

OS: Centos 6.6 (64-bit) fresh installwith all the Altera listed libraries installed except libzmq3.i686 (it wasn't in the repo)

Quartus II version 14.1.1 (update 1)installed from downloaded files

Quartus-web-14.1.0.186-linux.tar

QuartusSetup-14.1.1.190-linux.run

Another note: I get the exact same behavior with this Quartus on Linux Mint 17, and on two different computers. I installed Quartus on CentOS to see if there was some "magic" associated with the "approved" distribution.

Thank you

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    I have also experienced problems with freezes of the MegaWizard. ALTPLL and ALTSQRT so far tend to stop working. For ALTPLL however, I updated to the latest linux kernel, which has some graphics fixes, and I could then make it work. For ALTSQRT it still freezes if I don't increase the size of the MegaWizard window before clicking any fields or buttons.

    It seems to me that there is something not quite right with the way graphics is drawn in the MegaWizard and judging on the different bug reports related to the MegaWizard under Linux in this forum, I think that the Altera people really should look into it.

    I use Linux Mint 17.2 with linux kernel 4.2.0-22-generic and Quartus 15.1.
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    9 years ago

    I see the same problem with Quartus Prime 16.1 Standard on Ubuntu 16.04.

    Hope Altera fix this very annoying issue soon!
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    9 years ago

    I see this issue with various RAM, ROM, and FIFO components when opening them in MegaWizard using Quartus 15.1.2 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 with Gnome.

    As long as I use the workaround of resizing the first page so that both horizontal and vertical scrollbars disappear before clicking anything, it seems to work fine...
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    9 years ago

    I had the same problem when making a MUX. Mine is Quartus 16.1 standard and Ubuntu 16.04. After several methods, the following is success:

    1. You need to install Java from Oracle. My Java version after install is:

    java version "1.8.0_121"

    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)

    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

    2. And you need to install Quartus in a directory path that has no uppercase letters.

    Hope it helps.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    8 years ago

    Had the same problem (MegaWizard hangs during ALTPLL edit) on my main machine (desktop with latest Ubuntu 17.10, NVIDIA graphics card) while it always worked fine on my Thinkpad (exact same OS). My workaround for quite some time, then, was a remote login to my Laptop whenever I needed to edit a PLL and do it there (using "ssh -X" to the Thinkpad).

    Today, out of curiosity, I tried to remote login from the desktop to localhost instead (using "ssh -X localhost '<quartus_path>/bin/quartus --64bit'" to the same machine).

    Guess what - this works as well. And way faster ...
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    7 years ago

    Running Quartus 18 on Ubuntu 16 LTS

    I had the same problem and tried all suggested solutions and nothing worked. Later I realized I also was not able to see the help because the web browser never launched. The solution to that problem also happens to remove the problem with the hanging MegaWizard.

    Quartus is installed with its own program libraries. Starting quarts from the command line I could see that some functions was reporting missing when trying to launch the browser from Qaurtus. Removing the libraries with problems from the installatin directory and replacing them with symbolic links to the libraries installed by Ubuntu took care of these problem.
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    7 years ago

    4 years later on Quartus 16 - Ubuntu 18.04 this issue still persists. and maximizig the window solves the issue