Answers Database wir2xnf gives error 4 when using Powerview 6.0 (iwinit failure), need lsclient daemon Record #1075 Product Family: Software Product Line: ViewLogic Product Part: wir2xnf Product Version: 5.2 Problem Title: wir2xnf gives error 4 when using Powerview 6.0 (iwinit failure), need lsclient daemon Problem Description: Customers upgrading to Powerview 6.0 with the flexlm security may get an ERROR 4 when running wir2xnf and xnf2wir. The error message looks similar to the following: WIR2XNF Version 5.2.0 (c) Copyright 1988-1995 Xilinx Inc. All rights reserved. Input project : pscan Output XNF file : pscan.xnf Output CRS file : pscan.crs Output error file : pscan.err B option : OFF Parttype : Unspecified on command line Sub directory : Unspecified on command line SEC: No valid license found In file: <path>/powerview6.0/standard/license.wv For product: Generic pscan.xnf:WIR2XNF ERROR 4: Internal initialization failure : IWINIT FAILURE 1 Errors and 0 Warnings occurred during processing. Sorry, errors found, could not create output file Errors and Warnings stored in file pscan.err WIR2XNF is linked with version 4.1 of Viewbase. The problem is it cannot get a license under the 6.0 flexlm licensing scheme. Solution 1: The lsclient daemon has been developed to allow applications, which have not been modified to use Viewlogic FLEXlm security, to use FLEXlm licenses. The lsclient daemon should be able to run on the same server as the Powerview 6.0 FLEXlm license server. lsclient acts as the Viewlogic License Server for WIR2XNF and XNF2WIR. When a license is requested by WIR2XNF or XNF2WIR, lsclient checks out the "Generic" license from the Powerview 6.0 FLEXlm license server. 1) Set your WDIR environment variable to point to the <Powerview6.0>/standard directory. 2) Add the Powerview 6.0 executable directory to your user path. 3) Set the FLEXlm environment variable, LM_LICENSE_FILE, to point to the Viewlogic FLEXlm license file. 4) Make sure that the LICENSE_SERVER variable in the powerview.ini file in the powerview6.0/standard directory points to the server with the Powerview 6.0 license. 5) Make sure that the LICENSE_SERVER variable in the workview.ini file in the powerview6.0/standard directory points to the machine running the lsclient daemon. Syntax is: LICENSE_SERVER <lsclient_machine> 6) Make sure that the old Viewlogic License Daemon (VNSD) is not running on the LICENSE_SERVER machine. 7) Verify that the Viewlogic License File does have a "Generic" License available by typing "lmdiag Generic" This command should return the following: ------------------------------------------------------------ License file: <path_to_the_license_file> ------------------------------------------------------------ "Generic" v600.000, vendor: viewlmgrd    License servers: <License Server>    <#> floating licenses    starts: date, expires: date This license can be checked out ----------------------------------------------------- 8) Invoke lsclient on the machine that you specified in step 5. type: lsclient For more information on using lsclient, and the restrictions which apply to using lscleint, refer to Powerview 6.0 FLEXlm User's Guide: Chapter 9, License Server Client. End of Record #1075 - Last Modified: 02/10/97 15:02

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