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[solved] Estr string files not loaded : Maximum opened file limit for VariCAD

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[solved] Estr string files not loaded : Maximum opened file limit for VariCAD
Hi,

I just wanted to share with you guys some trouble shooting I did on VariCAD.

I was using VariCAD 2012 and it worked just fine, but then I wanted to upgrade to a more recent version (2014), and when I started it I got that funny error message :

Estr string files not loaded

Within a popup, right after VariCAD asked for its home directory, and crashed with no other apparent cause.

After some bisecting over the existing versions on the ftp site of VariCAD (ftp.varicad.com/) I found the first offending version that was causing it (mid 2013).

An strace of the varicad process taught me that actually, varicad tried to open that file but was rejected due to the maximum fd available.

So, in short, I just had to modify that limit it /etc/security/limits.conf

Simply speaking if your unix user is john, then add the two following lines to your /etc/security/limits.conf :

john soft nofile 20480
john hard nofile 40960

At this point, log off from your session (all of them), then login again (or just reboot the machine, do as you wish), and varicad will return to work.


Well, that took me some time to figure out, hope this will be usefull for some other and save you the trouble.
[solved] Estr string files not loaded : Maximum opened file limit for VariCAD. Opensuse 13.2 too.
Thanks so much.
I had 3 opensuse 12.2 installations with VariCAD. I updated opensuse to 13.2 and on 2 installations there was no problem. On one I got the symproms you mention. The message was not having write access too menu2d_t.en.
After implementing your solution in /etc/security/limits.conf its all working !!!.
Thanks again for the lead.

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