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


Record #1997

Product Family: Software

Product Line: M1 Graphical/General

Product Part: Design Manager

Product Version: 2.1i

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


Problem Description:
Urgency: Standard

General Description:

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


Solution 1:

1. If you are using either Solaris 2.5.x, 2.6, or 2.7, be sure
      to refer to (Xilinx Solution 3306).

2. 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.

3. Unset all known conflicting envrionment variables.

     unsetenv XNLSPATH (Xilinx Solution 2673)
     unsetenv XLIBI18N_PATH
     unsetenv LANG






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 .dsgmgr.ini file and .windu directory,
       and make a backup copy of .WindU file:

     rm -r ~/.windu ~/.dsgnmgr.ini

6. Now invoke Design Manager

     dsgnmgr & or
     xilinx & (M1.5 or greater)






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 can be to run the tools from the command line.
A new program called XFLOW is now available in the 2.1i Software Release
to make this easier for you. Please reference (Xilinx Solution 6694) for info
on how to use this command line tool.

For those using 1.5i Software or older, you may download the XGEN utility to automate this process:

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



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 - Last Modified: 12/17/99 12:38

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