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Design Manager M1: Fails to start (hangs/core dumps) on UNIX machines


Record #1997

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  M1 Graphical/General

Problem Title:
Design Manager M1: Fails to start (hangs/core dumps) on UNIX machines


Problem Description:
Keywords: Design Manager, segmentation fault, core dump, hang, UNIX, dsgmngr, co
re, crash, HP, windu

Urgency: Standard

General Description:

For any UNIX platform, Design Manager (dsgnmgr),
fails to start on a particular system.	Several
debugging hints are described below.

For M1.5, please see Xilinx Solution 4024.


Solution 1:

1.  Verify that the correct Xilinx environment variables are set and
    are all referenced first in the search order.  Reference
    (Xilinx Solution 2499) for further details.

2.  Unset all known conflicting envrionment variables.

    unsetenv XNLSPATH
    unsetenv XLIBI18N_PATH
    unsetenv LANG

3.  If you are using Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6), refer to
    (Xilinx Solution 3306).




Solution 2:

1.  Shut down any unnecessary running programs on the system.  Especially
    graphical programs like Netscape or some design entry tools which tend
    to require large system resources.

2.  Find the process IDs of the Windu interface programs:

    ps -e | grep windu

      23531 ?	     0:00 windu_cl
      23560 ?	     0:00 windu_re

    # Note - Use the -e switch with Solaris and HPUX versions of ps.
	     Use -x with the SunOS4 version.

3.  Kill all listed process IDs for windu (must have ownership of the
    processes or root priveleges):

    kill -9 23531 23560

4.  Verify Processes are "killed":

    ps -e | grep windu

5.  Remove the .WindU and .dsgmgr.ini files and .windu directory:

    rm -r ~/.windu ~/.dsgnmgr.ini ~/.WindU

6.  Now invoke Design Manager

    dsgnmgr & or
    xilinx  & (M1.5 only)






Solution 3:

If all else fails and the Design Manager still does not operate,
it has sometimes been seen that rebooting the system fixes
some problems with invoking Design Manager.

A temporary workaround is to run the tools from the command line as
opposed to through the GUI.  You may download the XGEN utility to automate
this process:

(Xilinx File ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/utilities/M1_workstation/xgen.tar.Z)



Solution 4:

For M1.5 only:

If the warnings/errors relate to windu_registryd and/or updating
the registry information, please reference (Xilinx Solution 4024)



End of Record #1997