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12 years ago

Running Altera OpenCL tools from a NFS server?

This might be a broader Altera issue, but I've experienced it only when working with the OpenCL SDK tools. We have our servers setup in a fairly standard configuration - a NFS storage server wh...
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12 years ago

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

I get just the Java error when I launch qsys-edit from the network-mounted tools: 


java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't initialize DevFamilyManagerFromDB
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DevFamilyManagerFromDB.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DevFamilyManager.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DevFamilyManager.getInstance(Unknown Source)
	at com.altera.sopcmodel.ensemble.Ensemble.customizeParameterDescriptors(Ensemble.java:2967)
	at com.altera.sopcmodel.beanelement.BeanElement.ensureParameterDescriptorMap(BeanElement.java:160)
	at com.altera.sopcmodel.beanelement.BeanElement.getParameterDescriptors(BeanElement.java:136)
	at com.altera.sopcmodel.beanelement.BeanElementClass.newInstance(BeanElementClass.java:286)
	at com.altera.sopcmodel.ensemble.Ensemble.createQsys(Ensemble.java:586)
	at com.altera.sopceditor.util.EditorUtils.createNewEnsemble(EditorUtils.java:1296)
	at com.altera.ipedit.QsysEditorApp.createEditor(QsysEditorApp.java:345)
	at com.altera.ipedit.QsysEditorApp.runQsysEditor(QsysEditorApp.java:315)
	at com.altera.ipedit.QsysEditorApp.act(QsysEditorApp.java:226)
	at com.altera.utilities.AltCmdLineToolBase.runTheTool(AltCmdLineToolBase.java:640)
	at com.altera.ipedit.QsysEditorApp.main(QsysEditorApp.java:455)
Caused by: com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DeviceDBEnvironmentException: Can't initialize connection to /mnt/cas_nfs/applications/altera/13.1/quartus/common/devinfo/device.db
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.SQLQueryRunner.connect(Unknown Source)
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DeviceDB.initConnectionToDatabaseFile(Unknown Source)
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.DeviceDB.<init>(Unknown Source)
	... 14 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: com.altera.jdbcsqlite.Exception: disk I/O error
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.JDBCStatement.executeQuery(JDBCStatement.java:153)
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.JDBCStatement.executeQuery(JDBCStatement.java:168)
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.JDBCStatement.execute(JDBCStatement.java:173)
	at com.altera.infrastructure.devices.SQLQueryRunner.initializeUnencryptedConnection(Unknown Source)
	... 17 more
Caused by: com.altera.jdbcsqlite.Exception: disk I/O error
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.Database.vm_compile(Native Method)
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.Database.compile(Database.java:684)
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.Database.get_table(Database.java:308)
	at com.altera.jdbcsqlite.JDBCStatement.executeQuery(JDBCStatement.java:120)
	... 20 more

So this suggests that system generation is failing, and hence the rest of the compile isn't working?