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Unable to lock chain (Insufficient port permissions)

I am new to Linux , and I am trying to install AlteraQuartus 2 WEb Edition and NIOS2 EDS to play with Nios2
Processor.
However , after installing Quartus and when I am trying to execute jtagconfig.
I do not see something like below , even after running /altera/nios2eds/nios2_command_shell.sh
1.)[Nios2 EDS] $ 2.) Unable to lock chain (Insufficient port permissions)
Please Help,
linux

embedded

embedded-linux

altera

asked Sep 9 '13 at 18:49

user2746930
40 7

2 Answers
"Insufficient permissions" or "permission denied" or whatever relating to not having permissions on *nix
usually means you must run the command as user root (or as another user who has the permissions, but
root has all of them).
So run jtagconfig as root :
$ sudo jtagconfig
Alternatively, as root, put this in a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-altera-usb-blaster.rules :
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",

ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb",
ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb",
ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb",
ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb",
ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb",

ATTR{idProduct}=="6001",
ATTR{idProduct}=="6002",
ATTR{idProduct}=="6003",
ATTR{idProduct}=="6010",
ATTR{idProduct}=="6810",

MODE="0666"
MODE="0666"
MODE="0666"
MODE="0666"
MODE="0666"

and then, run:

$ sudo udevadm control --reload
This should change the permission of your USB-Blaster Download Cable device so that any user may
access it (if this is what you want), so you should be able to issue jtagconfig without sudo . Those five
idProduct s are all the known USB-Blaster Download Cable USB product IDs (for the Altera vendor ID,
0x09fb ).
I wrote a fairly complete Arch Linux wiki page about Altera softwares on Linux if you want more details.
edited Sep 9 '13 at 22:00

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answered Sep 9 '13 at 19:28

eepp
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21-10-2014 15:23

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Please don't recommend running commands like this as root (it's not only a security problem, a tool which
leaves log files behind may then block the user from overwriting those); granting permission to the device node
as in the second half of your post is far more appropriate. Chris Stratton Sep 10 '13 at 19:59
jtagd should be killed before starting jtagconfig as root, otherwise, if jtagd is already running as
user, it will continue to do so and starting jtagconfig as root will have no effect. I took the liberty of posting a
separate answer. Carl Jul 24 at 19:09

To check if this is indeed a port permission problem, start the trouble-shooting by running jtagd (the
deamon between the Altera tool and the driver) as root. At first, you must make sure that jtagd is not
running, since if it is already running as a user, trying to start it as root will have no effect.
$ sudo killall -9 jtagd
# Kill jtagd, ...
$ sudo killall -9 jtagd
# ...and verify jtagd is indeed not running.
jtagd: no process found
# Good, verified.
$ sudo jtagconfig
# Will also start jtagd as root
1) CV SoCKit [2-1]
02D020DD
5CSEBA6(.|ES)/5CSEMA6/..
4BA00477
SOCVHPS
If the above is successful, this is indeed a port permission problem. To fix it permanently, try with udev rules,
as suggested by @eepp.
(On a side note, jtagd will be started by jtagconfig if not already running, as the same user that
started jtagd . Hence @eepps command will work as well, but jtagd should be killed first.)
For further trouble-shooting, running jtagd with some debug command-line options can give useful
information:
$ jtagd --foreground --debug
JTAG daemon started
Using config file /etc/jtagd/jtagd.conf
Remote JTAG permitted when password set
Cant bind to TCP port 1309 - exiting
(The above error message is typical if jtagd is already running.)
(Above is taken frn http://www.fpga-dev.com/altera-usb-blaster-with-ubuntu/. See that page for more
details.)
edited Aug 19 at 18:41

answered Jul 24 at 19:06

Carl
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