Problems with Cadence on Solaris 9

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Hristo Brachkov

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Hello,

I have the following problem:

I was trying to install Cadence 446.100.80 on Solaris 9. The installations
seemed to be OK, however when I try to start some design kit (I tried this
with 2 different ones) Cadence behaves rather strange - If I try to use
File -> Open it is not possible to be done although I click on the cell and
it seems selected, but it does not appear in the field of the one to be
opened. I can open a cell only using Library Manager, but in that case I get
a lot of complains and the cell cannot be edited, like in a case when the
license server is not working. I tried to check the licenses, however
SURPRISE!!! I cannot click the buttons. The text "Check In" and "Check Out"
is there, but just as some text.

Two more clarifications - The license server is HP machine and this is the
first time I'm trying to install Cadence on Solaris. I've never had those
problems when installing on HP.

On the CDs it's written that they are for Sun/SPARK Solaris 2.X and as far
as I know Solaris 9 corresponds to 5.9. Could this be a problem?

Does somebody know what might be the real problem?


Thanks,

Hristo
 
HI,

Hristo Brachkov wrote:
Hello,

I have the following problem:

I was trying to install Cadence 446.100.80 on Solaris 9. The installations
seemed to be OK, however when I try to start some design kit (I tried this
with 2 different ones) Cadence behaves rather strange - If I try to use
File -> Open it is not possible to be done although I click on the cell and
it seems selected, but it does not appear in the field of the one to be
opened. I can open a cell only using Library Manager, but in that case I get
a lot of complains and the cell cannot be edited, like in a case when the
license server is not working. I tried to check the licenses, however
SURPRISE!!! I cannot click the buttons. The text "Check In" and "Check Out"
is there, but just as some text.

Two more clarifications - The license server is HP machine and this is the
first time I'm trying to install Cadence on Solaris. I've never had those
problems when installing on HP.

On the CDs it's written that they are for Sun/SPARK Solaris 2.X and as far
as I know Solaris 9 corresponds to 5.9. Could this be a problem?
Solaris 9 is a boundle of UNIX(SunOS 5.9) and Xwindows and more stuff.
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Som SUN history.

Solaris 2.5 uses SunOS 5.5(UNIX OS)
Solaris 2.6 uses SunOS 5.6
Solaris 2.7 never existed, the marketing guys the decided to change name
to Solaris 7
Solaris 8 is SunOS 5.8(UNIX)

So what CDS means is that 2.x that is all Solaris version, from 2.0 to
2.5, but Solaris 7,8,9 could be a problem is CDS has just been not clear
enough on the CD.

How old is the software distribution, Years or fresh?

What is 446.100.80 actually, is the real CDS name?

/michael
 
Indeed, it looks exactly like a problem I had on a linux machine that
was set with a european locale.
I modified the startup scripts like this:

cd /cds/tools/dfII/bin ; file * |grep 'script text'|cut -d:
-f1|xargs grep -l 'inst_dir=`cds_root $0`' |xargs replace
'inst_dir=`cds_root $0`' 'inst_dir=`cds_root $0` ; [ ! -z "$LANG" ] &&
LANG=C' --

( run this oneliner only once !)
it makes use of the "replace" command that is delivered with mySQL, but
an "ed" script can do the same job.

It would be nice that cadence apps support internationalisation, or at
least don t break when the unix settings are non-american.


Andrew Beckett wrote:
Hristo,

The problems you're describing sound very like the problems caused by the LANG
environment variable. I suspect you installed the OS with a particular language
pack. You should be able to resolve these problems by either doing:

unsetenv LANG

or

setenv LANG C

before starting DFII. This is known to cause strange GUI effects such as
what you've described.

Note that Solaris 7 is also known as Solaris 2.7, Solaris 8 as 2.8 etc.
Strictly speaking we don't support Solaris 9 (2.9) yet, as far as I know,
but I don't believe it should cause any major trouble.

Regards,

Andrew

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:48:01 +0300, "Hristo Brachkov" <hristob@spam.no> wrote:


Hello,

I have the following problem:

I was trying to install Cadence 446.100.80 on Solaris 9. The installations
seemed to be OK, however when I try to start some design kit (I tried this
with 2 different ones) Cadence behaves rather strange - If I try to use
File -> Open it is not possible to be done although I click on the cell and
it seems selected, but it does not appear in the field of the one to be
opened. I can open a cell only using Library Manager, but in that case I get
a lot of complains and the cell cannot be edited, like in a case when the
license server is not working. I tried to check the licenses, however
SURPRISE!!! I cannot click the buttons. The text "Check In" and "Check Out"
is there, but just as some text.

Two more clarifications - The license server is HP machine and this is the
first time I'm trying to install Cadence on Solaris. I've never had those
problems when installing on HP.

On the CDs it's written that they are for Sun/SPARK Solaris 2.X and as far
as I know Solaris 9 corresponds to 5.9. Could this be a problem?

Does somebody know what might be the real problem?


Thanks,

Hristo


--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd
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Thanks, Andrew!

Now seems everything is working just fine!

"Andrew Beckett" <andrewb@DELETETHISBITcadence.com> wrote in message
news:66plkvg9gu57a9i0osd5vlp15loothhcpb@4ax.com...
Hristo,

The problems you're describing sound very like the problems caused by the
LANG
environment variable. I suspect you installed the OS with a particular
language
pack. You should be able to resolve these problems by either doing:

unsetenv LANG

or

setenv LANG C

before starting DFII. This is known to cause strange GUI effects such as
what you've described.

Note that Solaris 7 is also known as Solaris 2.7, Solaris 8 as 2.8 etc.
Strictly speaking we don't support Solaris 9 (2.9) yet, as far as I know,
but I don't believe it should cause any major trouble.

Regards,

Andrew

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:48:01 +0300, "Hristo Brachkov" <hristob@spam.no
wrote:

Hello,

I have the following problem:

I was trying to install Cadence 446.100.80 on Solaris 9. The
installations
seemed to be OK, however when I try to start some design kit (I tried
this
with 2 different ones) Cadence behaves rather strange - If I try to use
File -> Open it is not possible to be done although I click on the cell
and
it seems selected, but it does not appear in the field of the one to be
opened. I can open a cell only using Library Manager, but in that case I
get
a lot of complains and the cell cannot be edited, like in a case when the
license server is not working. I tried to check the licenses, however
SURPRISE!!! I cannot click the buttons. The text "Check In" and "Check
Out"
is there, but just as some text.

Two more clarifications - The license server is HP machine and this is
the
first time I'm trying to install Cadence on Solaris. I've never had those
problems when installing on HP.

On the CDs it's written that they are for Sun/SPARK Solaris 2.X and as
far
as I know Solaris 9 corresponds to 5.9. Could this be a problem?

Does somebody know what might be the real problem?


Thanks,

Hristo

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd
Click to expand...
 
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