Quartus crashing...

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This is an intentionally simple design (Nios2 CPU, sysid, on-chip RAM, 1 parallel port (leds) and a Jtag-uart). Fresh install of 11.0 on Win-XP. It crashes with: 

  *** Fatal Error: Access Violation at 0X0495A5EF Module: quartus_sta.exe Stack Trace:  0x3a5ee: RDB_REPORT_HANDLER::update_sub_pointers + 0x38e (db_rdb)  0x3a3bf: RDB_REPORT_HANDLER::update_sub_pointers + 0x15f (db_rdb)  0x3a718: RDB_REPORT_HANDLER::update_pointers + 0x18 (db_rdb)  0x5def: RDB_REPORT::get_report + 0x23f (db_rdb)  0x5f01: RDB_REPORT::get_report + 0x81 (db_rdb)  0x201c0: rdb_tcl_get_report + 0x70 (db_rdb)  0x21dfc: rdb_load_databases_for_reporting + 0x6c (db_rdb)  0x22264: _rdb_load_report + 0xe4 (db_rdb)  0xc82e: _TclInvokeStringCommand + 0x8e (tcl85)  0xdde3: _TclEvalObjvInternal + 0x283 (tcl85)  0x472ae: _TclExecuteByteCode + 0xd0e (tcl85)  0x46113: _TclCompEvalObj + 0xc3 (tcl85)  0xf280: _TclEvalObjEx + 0x2a0 (tcl85)  0x1811f: _Tcl_IfObjCmd + 0x27f (tcl85)  0xdde3: _TclEvalObjvInternal + 0x283 (tcl85)  0x472ae: _TclExecuteByteCode + 0xd0e (tcl85)  0x83dfa: _TclObjInterpProcCore + 0x4a (tcl85)  0x83d93: _TclObjInterpProc + 0x33 (tcl85)  0xdde3: _TclEvalObjvInternal + 0x283 (tcl85)  0xe99e: _TclEvalEx + 0x6ee (tcl85)  0xe29c: _Tcl_EvalEx + 0x1c (tcl85)  0x66561: _Tcl_FSEvalFileEx + 0x1a1 (tcl85)  0x653df: _Tcl_EvalFile + 0x1f (tcl85)  0xa850: _Dinkum_std::basic_string<char,_Dinkum_std::char_traits<char>,MEM_STL_ALLOCATOR<char> >::operator= + 0x200 (comp_qexe)  0xed10: qexe_get_command_line + 0xf60 (comp_qexe)  0x11245: qexe_run_tcl_option + 0x485 (comp_qexe)  0x1a66e: qcu_run_tcl_option + 0xa5e (comp_qcu)  0xaf00: qsta_main + 0x90 (quartus_sta)  0x11688: qexe_process_cmdline_arguments + 0x358 (comp_qexe)  0x117a4: qexe_standard_main + 0x84 (comp_qexe)  0xaeca: qsta_main + 0x5a (quartus_sta)  0x1b91: msg_main_thread + 0x11 (CCL_MSG)  0x1be8: _thr_final_wrapper + 0x8 (ccl_thr)  0x1b05: msg_thread_wrapper + 0x85 (CCL_MSG)  0x218a: mem_thread_wrapper + 0x4a (ccl_mem)  0x28a03: msg_exe_main + 0x63 (CCL_MSG)  0xaf2c: _main + 0x1c (quartus_sta)  0xb943: __purecall + 0x15f (quartus_sta)  0x17076: RegisterWaitForInputIdle + 0x48 (kernel32)  End-trace  Quartus II Version 11.0 Build 157 04/27/2011 SJ Web Edition   ... maybe I ought to go back to 10.1 :(  Simon

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Well, Quartus just wasted my Saturday, but creating a brand new VM, installing a fresh copy of XP, updating everything to the latest patch-levels, and doing a re-install of the 11.0 software seemed to do the trick...  

 Silly me, because of Parallels, for a little while there I'd forgotten I was running Windows (and don't tell me to use Win-7. That crashes on shut-down on three different machines). If Quartus can run on linux, why can't it be OSX-native ? Come on guys, you're only down the road from Cupertino... Pop over and talk about it...  Simon