Modelsim crash in ubuntu 12.04

Altera_Forum · ‎05-21-2013

Have installed Quartus 13.0 and ModelSim on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Installed from setup.py within the main package found on website.

Can't get ModelSim to work without a fatal crash.

Within ModelSim, every time I click Simulate, then Start Simulation, when I then select the design unit I want to simulate, I click ok, and ModelSim closes.

In the terminal I get the following message:

Error: couldn't open socket: host is unreachable

Trouble making server.

Have installed it in my home directory, and then changed to install as root in /opt/altera. Same problem.

Any help for logs to look at how to get more verbose output to try and track down the problem would be great.

Altera_Forum · ‎05-21-2013

Further debugging shows that modelsim is trying to connect to a DNS server to do some sort of loop back, but my machine is not sat on the correct domain.

I can't put it on the correct domain. Is there a way I can stop it from trying to do this loop back over the ethernet?

Altera_Forum · ‎05-21-2013

Incase anyone else wastes any time trying to get this resolved....

/etc/hosts needs to have an entry for localhost on loopback.