ALTERA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THIS PATCH WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THIS PATCH WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. //**************************************************************** quartusii-13.1-0.74-readme.txt Readme file for Quartus II 13.1 Patch 0.74 Copyright (C) Altera Corporation 2014 All right reserved. Patch created on April 03 2014 Patch Case#: 188703 //**************************************************************** Problem : Due to a problem in the Quartus II Software version 13.0 and later, a fatal error may be seen when launching Quartus II on Linux machines running RedHat / CentOS 6. distributions installed with newer and older versions of the libcrypto.so library (libcrypto.so.1.0.1e and libcrypto.so.0.9.8e.) which is installed by the openssl and some other packages. The Error message seen may be similar to the following: *** Fatal Error: Segment Violation at (nil) Module: quartus Stack Trace: 0x80106: lh_insert + 0xa6 (crypto.so.6) 0x5c8eb: OBJ_NAME_add + 0x6b (crypto.so.6) 0x4f571: SSL_library_init + 0x1d1 (ssl) Solution : This patch disables the code that triggers the segfault. Caution - You must either have previously installed the Quartus II 13.1 software or must install the Quartus II 13.1 software before installing this patch. Otherwise, the patch will not be installed correctly and the Quartus II software will not run properly.