General Description: Incorrectly set permissions on the $XILINX/coregen/tmp and $XILINX/coregen/preferences directories in the 2.1i release are the cause of this problem. The permissions are supposed to be set to 777 by the install, but are not. The problem will most often be seen on workstations since it is more common to have multiple users using the same installation of software in a networked workstation environment.
1. As a result of the incorrect permissions on the preferences directory, Coregen issues the following error when you exit the application:
"ERROR: Error opening user preference file <install_dir/coregen/preferences/coregen_<username>.prf"
and the user's preference settings do not get recorded in the preferences directory. The known.prj file (which records the locations of all known projects) in the same directory also will not be recorded. However, CORE Generator modules can still be generated.
2. The incorrect permissions on the tmp directory prevents the coregen.log file from being written out to $XILINX/coregen/tmp. (This applies only to PC platforms.)
ソリューション
Workstations:
Change the permissions on the $XILINX/coregen/preferences and $XILINX/coregen/tmp directories to 777.
If setting the permissions in this manner is undesirable, the person who installs the CORE Generator software at a minimum must start up the CORE Generator immediately after completing an installation to allow it to generate the resources.lib file (resources.lib contains a summary of the cores included in the installation). The same person must also start up CORE Generator immediately after each new IP update is installed to allow the CORE Generator to update this same file.
The repercussions of not assigning 777 permissions to the $XILINX/coregen/preferences directory are that :
1. The preferences for each individual user will not be recorded from run to run in a coregen_<username>.prf file in $XILINX/coregen/preferences. This currently means that there will be no record of the last project opened by each user.
2. It will not be possible for Coregen to write to the list of known projects created by all users, so pre-existing projects you have already created will not be known to Coregen.