cadence ic5141

Hi I am pretty new to Cadence Administration. We have encountered the
following problems to which I found no suited solution yet. Our OS is
CentOS 4.7 (x86_64).

Everytime I click right on any view in the Cadence Library Manager the
Library Manager crashes with the following error message:

X Error of failed request BadWindow (invalid window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 38 (X_QueryPointer)
Resource id in failed request: 0x25
Serial number of failed request: 83739
Current serial number in output stream: 83739

It is posible to open any view by double clicking onto it but then it
opens in read-only mode (not a big problem cause you can make it
editable by clicking on Design - Make editable or press control + O).
But now we want to use Verilog-A views and if you open them by
doubleclicking they are read-only and there is no way to make them
editable.

Open the Verilog-A views with control + O gives the following error
message:

WARNING editFile: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Atom id in failed request 0x48
Serial number of failde request 20
Current serial number in output stream: 20

No clue...

The CDS.log file shows some Warnings:

loading vars from /opt/cadence/PROJECT/env/cdsenv for tool schematic
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlCrossViewString',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlPrintCommand',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNetToInoutPort',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'schHdlVerbose',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNetToInputPort',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNoHierarchy',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlCrossViewCheck',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlEditAfterError',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
Loading icc.cxt
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool asimenv
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'overlay',
in tool[.partition] 'asimenv.plotting' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable
'printNotation'
in tool[.partition] 'asimenv.userPref'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'printNotation',
in tool[.partition] 'asimenv.userPref' - it has not been registered.
loading vars from /opt/cadence/PROJECT/env/cdsenv for tool calculator
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool calculator
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'value2',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'nth1',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable 'type2'
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'type2',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'value1',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'nth2',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable 'type1'
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'type1',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.delay' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'theta1',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.riseTime' - it has not been
registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'theta2',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.riseTime' - it has not been
registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'theta1',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.slewRate' - it has not been
registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'theta2',
in tool[.partition] 'calculator.slewRate' - it has not been
registered.
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool ddserv
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool graphic
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool layout
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'trlnPtsToTaper',
in tool[.partition] 'layout' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable
'guidedPathRoutingBoundary'
in tool[.partition] 'layout'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'guidedPathRoutingBoundary',
in tool[.partition] 'layout' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'guidedPathMaintainConnections',
in tool[.partition] 'layout' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'guidedPathCreate',
in tool[.partition] 'layout' - it has not been registered.
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool layoutXL
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'alignMethod',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'alignSeparation',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'alignApplySeparation',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'alignDirection',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL' - it has not been registered.
Virtuoso XL: ignoredParams is a deprecated environment variable and
will be removed in a future release.
Use paramsToIgnore instead.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'alignLayer',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL' - it has not been registered.
Virtuoso XL: ignoreNames is a deprecated environment variable and
will be removed in a future release.
Use propsUsedToIgnoreObjs instead.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable
'rowSTDInitOrient'
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL.placement'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'rowSTDInitOrient',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL.placement' - it has not been
registered.
*WARNING* envCyclicStringToIndex: could not find variable
'rowMOSInitOrient'
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL.placement'
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'rowMOSInitOrient',
in tool[.partition] 'layoutXL.placement' - it has not been
registered.
loading vars from ./cdsenv for tool schematic
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlCrossViewString',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlPrintCommand',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNetToInoutPort',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'schHdlVerbose',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNetToInputPort',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlNoHierarchy',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlCrossViewCheck',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
*WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable
'schHdlEditAfterError',
in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.

and

*WARNING* Please check your Cadence installation. Invalid search
paths: ("/opt/cadence/ic5141/tools.lnx86/dfII/local")

I am grateful for any help.

Thanks in advance
Jan

 

Some comments interspersed below:

Jan wrote, on 01/26/09 15:35:

Well, this is an unsupported OS (i.e. Cadence do no testing on it), so caveat
emptor.

I remember seeing this years ago with fvwm as my window manager - it was OK (if
my memory is correct) if I used the middle mouse button.

What window manager are you using? Most likely it's a bug in the window manager...

Most likely, you've got the following cdsenv setting somewhere:

cdsLibManager.main dblClickEditCellView boolean nil

The default is t.

Again, bad window manager, bad OS maybe?

Ditch the old cdsenv. It's full of obsolete cdsenv variables from older releases
(IC446 and earlier) - hence the many warnings.

Sorry, I've not seen this one before.

Best Regards,

Andrew.