Encounter: rdaInit.tcl failed

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Andrew Greensted

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Hi All,

I'm 'attempting' to run encounter on a gentoo based machine. I realise
this isn't officially supported, but it would be nice if it worked (I
prefer it over redhat).

I'm getting the following error when starting encounter. Just wondering
if anyone had any ideas?

--- Running on XXXXXX (i686 w/Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2) ---
This version was compiled on Thu May 12 20:09:52 PDT 2005.
Set DBUPerIGU to 1000.
Set Default Mode Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Detail Mode Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Coupling Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Resistance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set net toggle Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Shrink Factor to 1.00

**ERROR: The initialization tcl script "rdaInit.tcl" failed.

Your env variable ENCOUNTER is probably NOT SET CORRECTLY.
The env variable ENCOUNTER is currently set to
"/opt/cadence-2005/soc-4.1-usr5/tools.lnx86/fe".

*** ERROR: Failed initialization of tcl base package: rdaInit
Reason:
Advice: Check your installation or your environment variable

Application initialization failed: expected integer but got "-"
encounter 1> exit

*** Memory Usage v0.85.4.7 (Current mem = 45.336M, initial mem =
44.754M) ***
--- Ending "First Encounter" (totcpu=0:00:00.7, real=0:00:18.0,
mem=45.3M) ---

Many Thanks
Andy

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Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
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Andrew Greensted wrote:

I'm 'attempting' to run encounter on a gentoo based machine. I realise
this isn't officially supported, but it would be nice if it worked (I
prefer it over redhat).

I'm getting the following error when starting encounter. Just wondering
if anyone had any ideas?
Click to expand...
It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:

First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)

I realise that doesn't help, but it does show it is possible.

Cheers,

Roger
 
Roger Light wrote:
It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:
First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)
Click to expand...
Roger, thanks for the feedback. I see you're running a 2.4 kernel.
However, I doubt that's got anything to do with it.
Just wondering, when was the last time you did an system update. I guess
an emerge -uD world would break the installation.

--
Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)1904 433224 Web: www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112
 
Roger Light wrote:

Andrew Greensted wrote:

I'm 'attempting' to run encounter on a gentoo based machine. I realise
this isn't officially supported, but it would be nice if it worked (I
prefer it over redhat).

I'm getting the following error when starting encounter. Just
wondering if anyone had any ideas?


It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:

First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)

I realise that doesn't help, but it does show it is possible.
What is your install path ?
Click to expand...
The error seems related to the parsing of
"/opt/cadence-2005/soc-4.1-usr5/tools.lnx86/fe"
 
Andrew Greensted wrote:
Roger Light wrote:

It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:
First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)


Roger, thanks for the feedback. I see you're running a 2.4 kernel.
Click to expand...
No, that's actually just what Encounter appears to have been compiled
for. I'm running the same kernel as you - 2.6.14-gentoo-r2.

Just wondering, when was the last time you did an system update. I guess
an emerge -uD world would break the installation.
Click to expand...
Pretty recently - weeks or days, I can't remember.

Cheers,

Roger
 
fogh wrote:
Roger Light wrote:

Andrew Greensted wrote:

I'm 'attempting' to run encounter on a gentoo based machine. I
realise this isn't officially supported, but it would be nice if it
worked (I prefer it over redhat).

I'm getting the following error when starting encounter. Just
wondering if anyone had any ideas?



It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:

First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)

I realise that doesn't help, but it does show it is possible.

What is your install path ?
The error seems related to the parsing of
"/opt/cadence-2005/soc-4.1-usr5/tools.lnx86/fe"
Click to expand...
That path does exist. I installed SOC into:
/opt/cadence-2005/soc-4.1-usr5/

I've installed the solaris version in the exact same location (but of
course on a sun) and it's quite happy.

--
Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)1904 433224 Web: www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112
 
Roger Light wrote:
Andrew Greensted wrote:

Roger Light wrote:

It "works for me" on Gentoo with a slightly older Encounter:
First Encounter v03.30-s123_1 (32bit) 06/25/2004 15:20 (Linux 2.4)

Roger, thanks for the feedback. I see you're running a 2.4 kernel.

No, that's actually just what Encounter appears to have been compiled
for. I'm running the same kernel as you - 2.6.14-gentoo-r2.

Just wondering, when was the last time you did an system update. I
guess an emerge -uD world would break the installation.


Pretty recently - weeks or days, I can't remember.
Click to expand...
Aha, that makes things far more interesting. I wonder if I'm just
missing a dependency somewhere....

- Do you run encounter with an ENCOUNTER environment variable set (or in
fact any other special variables)?

- Did you have to emerge anything special to get it working?

Would you mind emailing me your world file (/var/lib/portage/world)?

--
Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)1904 433224 Web: www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112
 
Hi,

not sure if you still have that problem, but just in case.

Some time back I ran into the same issue on a Fedora installation. In my
case it was related to the fonts I had set in KDE. I believe I was using
"Sans Serif" when I got the same error as you. Once I switched back to
"Helvetia" it was fine again. Fonts are fairly non-standard among
distributions, but you may want to experiment with different fonts.

Best Regards,
Johannes Grad


"Andrew Greensted" <ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:dn6p4k$m85$1@pump1.york.ac.uk...
Hi All,

I'm 'attempting' to run encounter on a gentoo based machine. I realise
this isn't officially supported, but it would be nice if it worked (I
prefer it over redhat).

I'm getting the following error when starting encounter. Just wondering if
anyone had any ideas?

--- Running on XXXXXX (i686 w/Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2) ---
This version was compiled on Thu May 12 20:09:52 PDT 2005.
Set DBUPerIGU to 1000.
Set Default Mode Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Detail Mode Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Coupling Capacitance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Resistance Scale Factor to 1.00
Set net toggle Scale Factor to 1.00
Set Shrink Factor to 1.00

**ERROR: The initialization tcl script "rdaInit.tcl" failed.

Your env variable ENCOUNTER is probably NOT SET CORRECTLY.
The env variable ENCOUNTER is currently set to
"/opt/cadence-2005/soc-4.1-usr5/tools.lnx86/fe".

*** ERROR: Failed initialization of tcl base package: rdaInit
Reason:
Advice: Check your installation or your environment variable

Application initialization failed: expected integer but got "-"
encounter 1> exit

*** Memory Usage v0.85.4.7 (Current mem = 45.336M, initial mem = 44.754M)
***
--- Ending "First Encounter" (totcpu=0:00:00.7, real=0:00:18.0,
mem=45.3M) ---

Many Thanks
Andy

--
Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)1904 433224 Web: www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112
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Johannes Grad wrote:
Some time back I ran into the same issue on a Fedora installation. In my
case it was related to the fonts I had set in KDE. I believe I was using
"Sans Serif" when I got the same error as you. Once I switched back to
"Helvetia" it was fine again. Fonts are fairly non-standard among
distributions, but you may want to experiment with different fonts.
Click to expand...
KDE 3.5, Encounter V04.10, Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5

Johannes, fantastic, that did the trick. Many thanks for the pointer.
I had the font set to Nimbus Sans. As you say, after changing it to
Helvetica, encounter started up without problems.

After a little more tweaking it seems that it was 'Window Title' font
that was stopping encounter starting. I've set this to 'Arial Bold' and
Encounter is quite happy with that.

The only (small) problem I have now, is increasing the font size used in
the menus, it's tiny!! Any suggestions?

Thanks again
Andy


--
Dr. Andrew Greensted Department of Electronics
Bio-Inspired Engineering University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Tel: +44(0)1904 432379 Mailto: ajg112@ohm.york.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)1904 433224 Web: www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112
 
The only (small) problem I have now, is increasing the font size used in
the menus, it's tiny!! Any suggestions?
Click to expand...
I had the same problem, the top-level menu was looking okay, but the items
in the pull-down menu and dialog boxes were tiny. This is something KDE is
doing, because the same items look just fine in "failsafe" mode.

I was able to fix it by setting a large font for "Window title". I use
"Helvetica 9" for everything, and "Helvetica 12" for "Window title". Now all
my window titles are kind of large, but my SOCE menus are back to regular
size, looking exactly as under Solaris. So you may want to try just upping
the font size of "Window Title".

Best Regards,
Johannes Grad
 
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