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16 years ago

Segmentation Fault on Launch

Hello, I've been using Quartus 2 for some time on my computer and had to delete it because of lack of space on my partition, now I tried reinstalling it elsewhere and each time I try to launch it I get the splash screen and then it crashes with a seg fault.

I use Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 64bit)

After some search on the forum

I tried removing ~/.altera.quartus/

I also tried removing /tmp/mw_*

I still get a segmentation fault. I could be due to an unclean uninstallation, I remenber moving the whole directory to get some space on my primary partition, then tried to launch it from the remote directory I moved it to, I got a seg fault, I thought it to be normal due to my "unclean copy-paste", removed the whole directory and did reinstall it.

I still get a seg fault.

I also installed the service pack, still no change.

If anyone has a clue how to get Quartus working it would be great.

I really need to use it for my studies.

Thank you very much

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    16 years ago

    Note : I use Quartus 2 9.0 + sp2

    I managed to get it working once ! but it continues to segfault the rest of the time... strange.

    Any help would be welcome.
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    16 years ago

    Have you reinstalled the QUARTUS II on the new partition?

    Check that the new partition is not corrupted.

    If you have done a clean uninstall and install and deleted multiple instances, then perhaps your HDD got corrupted during partition.
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    16 years ago

    I tried to install it on both my /home and my / partitions, nothing to do...

    I really needed to use the software so I changed my linux to Fedora 11 (free version of Red Hat) and I'll see if it will work.
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    16 years ago

    I'm pretty sure that the official linux for quartus is redhat enterprise/centos because they aren't bleeding edge like fedora. It doesn't mean that fedora will necessarily fail but that you might have problems with libraries and such. If you have freedom to switch linux distros you might try that.

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    16 years ago

    I tried installing it onto Fedora 11

    It gives me : 

    
Calculating disk space requirements...
The requested installation requires 5750572 kbytes.
/home/rick/quartus/compare: Commande introuvable.
------------------------------------------------------------
You do not have enough disk space to install the requested items.
There are only 36528788 kbytes in /home/rick/altera9.0/quartus.

    36'528'788 > 5'750'572

    I find this rather strange...

    Is there any other way to install quartus than with the install script..?
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    16 years ago

    I did install the dependencies for the installer script for 64bit 

    su -c “yum install glibc.i586 glibc-devel.i586″
 su -c “yum install libSM.i586 libzip.i586 libXi.i586 libXrender.i586 libXrandr.i586″
 su -c “yum install freetype.i586 fontconfig.i586″

    The install script accepted to do the install.

    Finally !!! :)
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    16 years ago

    When I try to launch quartus from altera9.0/quartus/bin

    I get the following error message :

    Abandon

    This is really driving me crazy...

    If anyone has a clue.
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    16 years ago

    seems like a few people have been having trouble with Fedora 11. i have used Quartus on Fedora 10, so you might give that a try.

    you could also try and see if there are known issues with MainWin apps on Fedora 11.
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    16 years ago

    Finally after going from a distribution to another I sticked with Ubuntu 8.10 64bit.

    Quartus works fine :)

    I just had to install tcsh for the install script.
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    16 years ago

    I have similar problem. I tried to install quartus on a 9.04 64-bit machine and I get a seg fault. Quartus works okay on my 9.10 32-bit and it worked when I was still on 9.04. (USB Blaster is another story.) I suspect some incompatibility with 64-bit OS. (I will never put 64-bit ubuntu on a machine. It doesn't buy you anything but problems.)

    Altera, please support Ubuntu whole-heartedly. That would probably help quite a few of us.

    Dave ...