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    What Is A Lock File

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    This document provides instructions for deleting stale *.cdslck lock files in Cadence. It describes running commands in the C-shell terminal to find and remove all *.cdslck files in the current directory and its subdirectories. Running these commands will delete any stale lock files left behind if Cadence crashes, allowing associated design files to be opened again.

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    What Is A Lock File

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    This document provides instructions for deleting stale *.cdslck lock files in Cadence. It describes running commands in the C-shell terminal to find and remove all *.cdslck files in the current directory and its subdirectories. Running these commands will delete any stale lock files left behind if Cadence crashes, allowing associated design files to be opened again.

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    This document provides instructions for deleting stale *.cdslck lock files in Cadence. It describes running commands in the C-shell terminal to find and remove all *.cdslck files in the current directory and its subdirectories. Running these commands will delete any stale lock files left behind if Cadence crashes, allowing associated design files to be opened again.

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    What Is A Lock File

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    This document provides instructions for deleting stale *.cdslck lock files in Cadence. It describes running commands in the C-shell terminal to find and remove all *.cdslck files in the current directory and its subdirectories. Running these commands will delete any stale lock files left behind if Cadence crashes, allowing associated design files to be opened again.

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    How to delete stale *.cdslck files First, close your Cadence icfb session.

    Then, type the following commands in the terminal window. From the C-shell terminal window, first assume the following environment settings.

    Shell: C-shell Current working directory: The same directory where you started the Cadence tool, a.k.a. the directory that contains the cds.lib file and all of your own Cadence libraries. Unix Prompt: Assuming that the Unix prompt is ``tcsh>'', i.e. don't type ``tcsh>'', only type the commands that come after it. Foreach Prompt: Assuming that the foreach prompt is ``foreach?'', i.e. don't type ``foreach?'', only type the commands that come after it.

    Type the following commands in the terminal window. Unix prompts that are not to be typed are in red.
    tcsh> foreach i (`find . -name '*.cdslck'`) foreach? echo $i foreach? rm $i foreach? End tcsh>

    This will find and remove all stale '*.cdslck' files.

    What is a Lock File? When one opens up a cadence cell for editing (schematic, layout, symbol, etc), Cadence automatically creates a temporary file called a lock file. The lock file prevents another user from opening up the same file for edit. As an example, when one creates a "inv" cell for an inverter, and creates a "layout" view a file called: cadence\Digital\inv\layout\layout.cdb is created to store all of the layout. When one is working on the inverter, cadence creates a "lock" file called: cadence\Digital\inv\layout\layout.cdb.cdslck <--notice the "lock" extension This makes it so only the person who has the file open can edit/change the inverter's layout. When one saves and closes the layout file, the "lock" file is deleted, so that in the future it can be opened for edit again.

    What is the problem? If one is editing the inverter's layout in cadence, and for some reason cadence crashes or exits for some unexpected reason, the "layout.cdb.cdslck" file may not be deleted, due to the crash. When this happens, once cadence is restarted, the lock file is still in place. This will make it so you cannot open the inverter's layout. We must remove this lock file manually, as cadence is not intelligent enough on its own to understand what is happening.

    What are the symptoms of a left behind lock file? Two situations may occur: 1) When you start cadence, it takes a very long time to startup, and when it does, it gives the warning: *WARNING* file /home/ugrad/(yourusernamehere)/CDS.log Connection refused 2) Once cadence is open you attempt to open up a view in cadence, say your inverter's layout as an example, it may take a very, very long time to open. It may never open. In this case, you probably have a left behind lock file.

    How do I remove the lock files? It is very simple. Follow these steps: 1) login to a unix workstation (or ssh to hobbes from home) 2) EXIT cadence (if you have it open) 3) from the terminal type in the following commands: cd ~ rm -rf *.cdslck cd ~/cadence find . -name '*.cdslck' -exec rm {} \; find . -name '*.oacache' -exec rm {} \; It should not prompt you to delete, but if it prompts you to "delete" a file, say yes!

    4) Now start cadence, and it should be cleared up

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