( ESNUG 302 Item 5 ) --------------------------------------------- [10/21/98]
From: janick@qualis.qualis.com (Janick Bergeron)
Subject: We BEG YOU To PLEASE Help On Our Cadence Verilog-XL License Problem
John,
We're desperate. REALLY desperate. We BEG YOU to PLEASE help us on our
Cadence Verilog-XL FLEXlm licensing problem! PLEASE!
Earlier this month I posted it on comp.cad.cadence as a description of a
licensing problem when running Verilog XL on Solaris 5.6. I was told that
updating to 97AQSR5 is required for Sol5.6. I did but to no avail.
Verilog-XL refuses to connect to the license daemon but works fine under
Sol 2.5.1... The following are transcripts of everything I tried. The text
between "[]" are my own comments.
Version of the OS we are using [XL and the license server are both running
on the same machine "speedy"]:
janick@speedy % cd /tools/adm/cadence
janick@speedy % uname -a
SunOS speedy 5.6 Generic_105181-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
I make sure my DEAMON line is correct [it's ok]:
janick@speedy % grep DAEMON key
DAEMON cdslmd /tools/home/cadence/97A/tools.sun4v/bin/cdslmd
I verify that the path to the vendor deamon is correct and check its version
at the same time [5.12]:
janick@speedy % lmver /tools/home/cadence/97A/tools.sun4v/bin/cdslmd
lmver - Copyright (C) 1989-1998 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm 5.12 (libmgr_as.a), Copyright (C) 1988-1997 Globetrotter...
FLEXlm 5.12 (libmgr_s.a), Copyright (C) 1988, 1997 Globetrotter...
FLEXlm 5.12 (liblmgr.a), Copyright (C) 1988-1997 Globetrotter...
I check the version of the lmgrd that come with 97AQSR5 [5.12 too]:
janick@speedy % setenv CDS_HOME /tools/home/cadence/97A
janick@speedy % lmver $CDS_HOME/tools.sun4v/bin/lmgrd
lmver - Copyright (C) 1989-1998 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm Copyright 1988-1996, Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm 5.12 (libmgr_s.a), Copyright (C) 1988, 1997 Globetrotter...
FLEXlm 5.12 (liblmgr.a), Copyright (C) 1988-1997 Globetrotter...
I try to manually start the license server [cdslmd can't talk to lmgrd]:
janick@speedy % $CDS_HOME/tools.sun4v/bin/lmgrd -t 20 -c key
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) -----------------------------------
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd)
[...]
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) FLEXlm (v5.12) started on speedy (Sun)
(10/20/1998)
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) FLEXlm Copyright 1988-1996, Globetrotter...
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) World Wide Web: http://www.globetrotter.com
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) License file: "key"
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons ...
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) Started cdslmd (internet tcp_port 60656
pid 2620)
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) ----------------------------------
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd)
[...]
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) Server started on speedy for: 100
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) 21900 26000 CWAVES
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) SimVision UET VERILOG-XL
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) VXL-TURBO VXL-VCW VXL-VET
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) VXL-VLS VXL-VRA
10/20 10:01:31 (cdslmd) Vendor daemon can't talk to lmgrd (Cannot
read data from license server (-16,287:22) Invalid argument)
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) Vendor daemon died with status 240
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) Since this is an unknown status, lmgrd will
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) attempt to re-start the vendor daemon.
10/20 10:01:31 (lmgrd) REStarted cdslmd (internet tcp_port 60658
pid 2621)
[...]
Message repeated several times as lmgrd attempts to restart cdslmd. It
eventually gives up. ....
10/20 10:01:32 (cdslmd) Vendor daemon can't talk to lmgrd (Cannot
read data from license server (-16,287:22) Invalid argument)
10/20 10:01:32 (lmgrd) Please correct problem and restart daemons
I now kill the deamon:
janick@speedy % lmdown -c key
lmdown - Copyright (C) 1989-1998 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
Port@Host Vendors
1) 15280@speedy Unknown (pre-v6 lmgrd)
Are you sure (y/n)? y
Shut down FLEXlm server on node speedy
1 FLEXlm License Server shut down
10/20 10:01:40 (lmgrd) SHUTDOWN request from janick at node speedy
10/20 10:01:40 (lmgrd) lmgrd will now shut down all the vendor daemons
I consult the FAQ from FlexLM [it does not help]:
Q8.5 Vendor daemon can't talk to lmgrd
This means a pre-v3.0 lmgrd is being used with a v3.0+ vendor daemon.
[That's not the case here] Simply use the latest version of lmgrd (MUST
be a version equal to or greater than the vendor daemon version). [It's
already the same but let's try a newer version (6.1)]
(Rare): This can also happen if TCP networking doesn't function on the
node where you're trying to run lmgrd. [Everything else works fine]
Q8.6 Vendor daemon died with status n...Since this is an unknown
status, lmgrd will attempt to re-start the vendor daemon.
Often this is accompanied by printing a port number which increases
over and over. lmgrd tries to start the vendor daemon using the DAEMON
line in the license file, which looks like:
DAEMON demo /usr/bin/demo
The /usr/bin/demo is a path to a binary, and there's something wrong
with either the path or the binary itself. One way to debug this is to
run vendor daemon directly, using this path, and problem then becomes
more apparent. [That path is fine]
I try using a more recent version of lmgrd [6.1, it works!]:
janick@speedy % lmver /tools/lib/lmgrd
lmver - Copyright (C) 1989-1998 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm Copyright 1988-1998, Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm 6.1 (libmgr_s.a), Copyright (C) 1988, 1997 Globetrotter...
FLEXlm 6.1 (liblmgr.a), Copyright (C) 1988-1997 Globetrotter...
janick@speedy % /tools/lib/lmgrd -t 20 -c key
10:02:03 (lmgrd) ------------------------------------------
[...]
10:02:03 (lmgrd) FLEXlm (v6.1) started on speedy (Sun) (10/20/1998)
10:02:03 (lmgrd) FLEXlm Copyright 1988-1998, Globetrotter Software, Inc.
10:02:03 (lmgrd) US Patents 5,390,297 and 5,671,412.
10:02:03 (lmgrd) World Wide Web: http://www.globetrotter.com
10:02:03 (lmgrd) License file(s): key
10:02:03 (lmgrd) lmgrd tcp-port 15280
10:02:03 (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons ...
10:02:03 (lmgrd) Started cdslmd (internet tcp_port 60680 pid 2637)
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) lmgrd version 4, cdslmd version
WHOA! Here's something odd: cdslmd thinks it's talking to a lmgrd
version 4 !?!?!?!?!
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) -----------------------------------
[...]
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) Server started on speedy for: 100
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) 21900 26000 CWAVES
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) SimVision UET VERILOG-XL
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) VXL-TURBO VXL-VCW VXL-VET
10/20 10:02:03 (cdslmd) VXL-VLS VXL-VRA
I then try to run Verilog [it STILL fails]:
janick@speedy % verilog list.v
VERILOG-XL 2.5.20 Oct 20, 1998 10:02:27
[...]
-------- Qualis Design Corporation Verilog-XL --------
(use $list_pli_pkgs to display installed PLI packages)
Compiling source file "list.v"
Error! ERROR (LM -15): license server ("speedy")
communication error - try longer timeout (run
'lic_error -15' for more information). Feature
is VERILOG-XL [Verilog-LICENSE]
Exit 1
The original binary version shipped with 97AQSR5 (without PLIs) failed, too.
I try from a Sol 2.5.1 machine [it works]:
janick@jaguar [~/verilog]% uname -a
SunOS jaguar 5.5.1 Generic_103640-21 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
janick@jaguar [~/verilog]% verilog list.v
VERILOG-XL 2.5.20 Oct 20, 1998 10:35:44
[...]
-------- Qualis Design Corporation Verilog-XL --------
(use $list_pli_pkgs to display installed PLI packages)
Compiling source file "list.v"
Highest level modules:
LIST
This version of Verilog-XL includes:
Design Acceleration SST Extensions version 5.3
Veritools Undertow Interface version 6.0.9
Veritools Interactive Tool Interface version 2.2.8
0 simulation events (use +profile or +listcounts option to count)
CPU time: 0.4 secs to compile + 0.2 secs to link + 0.0 secs in simulation
End of VERILOG-XL 2.5.20 Oct 20, 1998 10:35:48
I manually check that licenses can be checked out using lmdiag shipped with
the Cadence software [they all work :-(]:
janick@speedy % $CDS_HOME/tools.sun4v/bin/lmdiag -c key
lmdiag - Copyright (C) 1989-1997 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
FLEXlm diagnostics on Tue 10/20/1998 10:02
-----------------------------------------------------
License file: key
-----------------------------------------------------
10/20 10:02:43 (cdslmd) OUT: "100" janick@speedy [lmdiag]
"100" v4.400, vendor: cdslmd
License server: speedy
floating license starts: ..., expires: ...
10/20 10:02:43 (cdslmd) IN: "100" janick@speedy [lmdiag] (used: 0:00)
This license can be checked out
[...]
Enter <CR> to continue:
10/20 10:02:51 (cdslmd) OUT: "VXL-VRA" janick@speedy [lmdiag]
"VXL-VRA" v2.300, vendor: cdslmd
License server: speedy
floating license starts: ..., expires: ...
10/20 10:02:51 (cdslmd) IN: "VXL-VRA" janick@speedy [lmdiag] (used: 0:00)
This license can be checked out
AAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh! *help*
- Janick Bergeron
Qualis Design Lake Oswego, OR
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