cdsFinder Error

I found one report of this which was due to running on an unsupported version of Linux. Which IC sub-version are you using (first of all, check "which cdsFinder" to find which installation it's coming from, and for that installation run "virtuoso -W" to check the subversion). Which OS are you on (use "cat /etc/os-release")?

Thanks,

Andrew

The current version in use is 6.1.7.

# cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation"

VERSION="7.4 (Maipo)"
...

VERSION_ID="7.4"

Actually, I re-read the issue on this and I don't think it is OS-related (possibly, at least). RHEL7 should work (I tried with 6.1.7 and RHEL7.9 and it was fine). The only way I can get the "Finder database initialization failed. Exiting." message is either by having the doc directory or doc/finder directory missing in my IC installation. I don't get the obInit messages though - others have reported this at various times but there seems to be no clear explanation as to the failure (there have been a tiny number of reports on this, one recent was for somebody trying to run cdsFinder on RHEL7.9 from IC6.1.7).

Anyway, IC6.1.7 is not supported any more - so I would strongly suggest using something more recent (even IC6.1.8 is no longer supported).  Can you move to IC23.1? IC25.1 would need a newer OS version...

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

This is not exactly the topic of the post, but as you mentioned it : what is the simplest/standard way to get Virtuoso version / OS compatibility?

I think there is a script to check current OS but I don't remember where exactly?

Otherwise is there a compatibility matrix somewhere?

Thanks,

Aurel

Hi Aurel,

I think you are asking about the checkSysConf utility that ships with Virtuoso?  It can be found in <installRoot>/tools/bin/checkSysConf

Here is the link to the "Supported Platform Matrix for Cadence Applications":

https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?pageName=ArticleContent&id=a1Od000000051vo&pageURL=COSComputingPlatforms&oMenu=DocumentViewer%20Computing%20Platforms

Regards,

Lawrence.

skillUser said:

Here is the link to the "Supported Platform Matrix for Cadence Applications":

In fact that link now just points at a document which recommends you to go to the http://downloads.cadence.com site and then look for the particular release and it shows you the supported OS for each release. We no longer maintain a separate platform support matrix (there were too many occasions where maintaining it twice got out of sync).

Regards,

Andrew