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PlanAhead license problems.

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Former Member over 11 years ago

I am using a license that I have created on the "Product Licensing" on the Xilinx website. It is a "Vivado Design Suite: System Edition University License. Full license, floating.". I will try and attach it to this forum thread (there is no button visible now to allow me to do that). When I try to start PlanAhead, I get the following error:

$ PlanAhead/bin/planAhead
                                                                                                                                                            
****** PlanAhead v14.7 (64-bit)                                                                                                                             
  **** Build 321239 by xbuild on Fri Sep 27 19:24:36 MDT 2013                                                                                               
    ** Copyright 1986-1999, 2001-2013 Xilinx, Inc. All Rights Reserved.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                            
INFO: [Common 17-78] Attempting to get a license: PlanAhead                                                                                                 
WARNING: [Common 17-301] Failed to get a license: PlanAhead

I am able to use the license with the `EDK/bin/lin64/xsdk` and `EDK/bin/lin64/xps` without any problems. When the PlanAhead graphical interface opens up, a popup tells me "Unable to get a license. There may be a problem witb your FLEXNet configuration, or your license may be down. What would you like to do?". I have tried "Get License...", and have pointed to my Xlinx.lic file, but this does not get past this popup error message, even after restarting PlanAhead. When I instead click "Retry", another popup says "Unable to get a license".

I have ran `common/bin/lin64/xinfo`. I will try to attach my `xinfo.txt` file.

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    Here are the files in question.

    Xilinx license file.
    http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/files/Xilinx.lic

    xinfo.txt
    http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/files/xinfo.txt

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    I'm pleased to report that this was resolved on the Xilinx support forums. The fix: I opted instead for a fixed node license rather than the floating license.

    http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Installation-and-Licensing/PlanAhead-license-problem/m-p/385233

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