Why does the Intel® Stratix® 10 Hard Processor System encounter an error while programming the FPGA core image?

Due to a problem with the Intel® Stratix® 10 Secure Device Manager firmware in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Programmer software version 18.1 , the Hard Processor System may encounter an error while programming a large FPGA core image.  In U-boot, this problem may result in a hang or resemble the following error:

SOCFPGA_STRATIX10 # fpga load 0 ${loadaddr}${filesize}                         

....RECONFIG_DATA error: 00000004, Unknown error!