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FelipePlech
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5 years ago
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Nios II SBT Crashing on Linux

I'm having a problem when trying to open the Nios II SBT from Quartus on Linux. I've tried to use Quartus 18.1 and 20.1. When opening from the directory "quartus/nios2eds/bin/eclipse-nios2" using t...
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    SThor8
    5 years ago

    The following workaround seems to work, it essentially replace Quartus included java engine with Java 8

    cd ..../intelFPGA/20.1/quartus/linux64
    mv jre64 jre64_old
    ln -s /lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/jre jre64

    the path to Java 8 jre might be machine specific, mine is at least placed there

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SDevaux
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5 years ago

hi Eliath Guzman

Do you have any news about this, because I have the same problem

Thanks

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SDevaux
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5 years ago

Hi everyone,

It seems to be an error in GTK

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0

(Eclipse:225473): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:27:00.086: Negative content width -6 (allocation 1, extents 4x3) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owne
r GtkToolbar)

(Eclipse:225473): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:27:00.086: Negative content height -6 (allocation 1, extents 4x3) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, own
er GtkToolbar)
free(): invalid pointer

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    SDevaux
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    5 years ago

    Hi everyone and @Eliath_G_Intel ,

    I found a solution :

    run in konsole:

    export SWT_GTK3=0
    export SWT_WEBKIT2=1
    ./eclipse-nios2

    and GUI will be launched correctly

    Stephane,

    FPGA R&D engineer