Error running quartus : Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss

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Hi all, 

 I have a problem to run quartus on my linux, when I simply run it, I have a message like this : ./quartus Abandon  So I modified a little the run script to see where is the problem : quartus Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss  After this I decide to see the rpcss program : ./rpcss Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss. 03/04 18:07:52 -> Registry server is currently unavailable (0)  Does someone have an idea on my problem ?  Thanks a lot...

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I installed quartus 9.1 on an upto date FC12 system, and it gives me a similar issue on starting quartus 

  $ which quartus /tools/altera/9.1/quartus/bin/quartus $ quartus 19/05 12:41:53 [# 1] ->   RPCSS ServiceMain failed with 1702 (000006a6) The binding handle is invalid.   Segmentation fault (core dumped)   The quartus logo appears for few seconds and then it dies.  Any ideas which package I need to remove. It seems like RPCSS is a windows issue on googling, is this some thing related to wine. I checked the list of processes using ps, no command name with rpcss. The closest I found are   root 1188 2 0 11:40 ? 00:00:00 [rpciod/0] root 1189 2 0 11:40 ? 00:00:00 [rpciod/1]  Any ideas?

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i am running web edition 9.1sp2 on FC12 without problems (after removing 2 .so in the Quartus install as mentioned in some other threads). 

 are you using web or subscription edition? if subscription try running mwcleanup (also in $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/bin).

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I forgot to paste the solution, now that I got this problem on a new machine, I am posting it here. The Fedora linux distro FC13 (11,12 too) by default puts machine name (abcd here) in /etc/hosts 

as first line  127.0.0.1 abcd.domain.com abcd localhost.localdomain localhost  The line should be either  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost   or the line commented out altogether to get rid of this error.  You all need machine ip in there.  192.168.1.xx abcd.domain.com abcd

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mine looks like your modified version also, i can't remember if i changed it from default 

 $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

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Having the same problem; prior to it, 9.1 ran fine on this machine for close to 8 months. 

FC12, x64. Ran mwcleanup, didn't help. Any other ideas?

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it was working fine and then just stopped? 

 must have been a change in a yum update. did you take a look at your /etc/hosts as mentioned above?

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Yep, /etc/hosts look fine. Probably a yum update caused it. I wish I knew how to debug this - MainWin documentation is scarce, and Altera will probably wave it off, since they only support RHEL... 

 BTW, happens both on 9.1 and 9.1.2; 10.0 and 10.0.1 run fine.

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--- Quote Start ---  I forgot to paste the solution, now that I got this problem on a new machine, I am posting it here. The Fedora linux distro FC13 (11,12 too) by default puts machine name (abcd here) in /etc/hosts as first line  127.0.0.1 abcd.domain.com abcd localhost.localdomain localhost  The line should be either  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost   or the line commented out altogether to get rid of this error.  You all need machine ip in there.  192.168.1.xx abcd.domain.com abcd  --- Quote End ---    Thank you that solved my problem :)  Details:  I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, and installed Altera NiosII IDE and Quartus (both version 9.0)  my /etc/hosts content was (when Quarts was giving "Segmentation fault"):  192.168.0.57 MirDesktop# Added by NetworkManager 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 MirDesktop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 127.0.1.1 MirDesktop  # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters    When commenting row 3 and 4, everything works fine, my /etc/hosts looks now:  192.168.0.57 MirDesktop# Added by NetworkManager 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost #::1 MirDesktop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 #127.0.1.1 MirDesktop  # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters   Hope this will help someone :) Thank you