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11 years ago

Quartus II keeps crashing on Ubuntu 14.10

Quartus II will start on Ubuntu 14.10. And I've successfully programmed .sof file to Cyclone V. But, if idle for a few minutes, it crashes with the following report: problem details Err...
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11 years ago

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I received an update from Altera support:

The suggested workaround did not work for me.

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In the altera/14.1/quartus/linux64 folder, rename libcurl.so.4 to libcurl.so.4.bak. Then, restart Quartus. This will cause the runtime library loader to fall back to the system's own libcurl, which is hopefully compatible. This worked on RHEL 7, no crashes for a couple of hours when it used to crash after every compilation.