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ADE XL, ADE Explorer Can not launch

SimbaG
SimbaG over 2 years ago

1. Introduction 

ADE XL, ADE Explorer Can not be launched, Virtuoso stuck for minutes and return some error message.

I searched the forum and found one similar thread.

https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/custom-ic-design/55433/adexl-not-starting

The Issue can be reproduced on Virtuoso 6.1.8 (sub-version  IC6.1.8-64b.500.27) and Virtuoso Studio 23.1 (although athe error message is different)

2. Error Message

The following error messages are from 6.1.8

getVersion(t)
"sub-version IC6.1.8-64b.500.27 " (Is it ISR 27?)


axlBeanstalkd process '15323' was stopped, the last strace information before it's stopped is dumped to '/tmp/strace_2023_07_21_08_27_02_15323'
Messages already created for current virtuoso session was lost and cannot be recovered.
*Error* error: Timed out attempting to connect to launched beanstalkd process. - nil
*WARNING* (DEBASE-102079): A SKILL error occurred in function _axlDataTrigger
*WARNING* (DEBASE-102084): Data trigger for viewType maestro failed.

And I checked the strace log

$ cat /tmp/strace_2023_07_21_08_27_02_15323
strace: attach: ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, 15323): No such process

The ADE L works well in IC618

3. Testing on IC 23.1

By the way, the IC 23.1 is

getVersion(t)
"sub-version IC23.1-64b.43 "

And when I open the ADE Explorer (there is no ADE XL), it stuck and returns no error message.

4. Information asked in the previous thread

Furthermore, Andrew asked "Is this for an existing adexl view? If you look in the view, is the data.sdb empty?"

I checked the maestro/maestro.sdb and adexl/data.sdb, they are totally blank, size are 0.

They are created by the failing launching. 

5. Some guessing

Is it related to spectre? I am using 

spectre -W
sub-version 19.1.0.373.isr7

I can see one related process by ps command:

ps -eo pid,args -u [my_user_name]

[/mycadencepath]/ic618-270/tools/dfII/bin/64bit/axlBeanstalkd -p 11300 -z 10000000

but the PID is not the PID mentioned in the Virtuoso console, actually, the found process PID is always larger than the one given by console error message.

6. Debug

How can I find some log or turn on logging for Virtuoso for troubleshooting?

Thank you for reading.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 2 years ago

    Please contact customer support (submit a support case). That's what it's for. Diagnosing unusual things like this is not really best done in the community forums.

    Andrew 

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  • SimbaG
    SimbaG over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew, I am connecting our staff to create a case.

    Can you suggest some command line to collect information for troubleshooting? Or any related document?

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 2 years ago in reply to SimbaG

    This article may help: Troubleshooting ADE Explorer, ADE Assembler, and ADE XL

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  • SimbaG
    SimbaG over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew, this issue has been solved. The issue is due to our system config.

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