Stats

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 1
  • Subscribers 143
  • Views 13813
  • Members are here 0
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Unable to run an ocean script after receiving the message *WARNING* (infile): not a normal file

LuisGutierrez

Hi,

I'm using Virtuoso IC6.1.7-64b.500.21 and the output of spectre -W is sub-version  18.1.0.143.isr1. I'm running some simulations via ocean scripts and sometimes, if there's a bug in the script the simulation will fail (of course). However, after correcting the error and trying to run the script again, I receive a message in the CIW saying:

*WARNING* (infile): not a normal file 

And nothing happens. From that moment on I can't run any ocean script and I keep receiving the same message over and over again. The only "work around" is to close and reopen a virtuoso session.Is there a way to recover from such message without having to restart a session?

Regards,

  • This is a bit odd. I've found only a single (rather old) report of this happening with a tmpfs filesystem (and we couldn't reproduce it). As far as I can see, SKILL issues this message if the file is not one of three types (from the fstat man page):

    regular file
    character device
    FIFO

    Can you check what the UNIX "stat" command reports on this file (the one reported in the warning):

    /usr/bin/stat /path/to/your/file

    Regards,

    Andrew.

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.