Andrew Beckett
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I've done some searching and as far as I can see, this has never been reported to Cadence before. Looking through the code, on Linux platforms it would be caused by the return value of the OS call setmntent (see "man setmntent") returning NULL, and it would be using this to read the /etc/mtab file to find the mounted volumes.
It suggests that for some reason /etc/mtab is not readable on the machine in question (which is a bit unusual) - would be worth checking that. Perhaps it only happens on some machines and you can check with your IT folks to find out why that is?
The mount tables are read to try to simplify paths - this is used in lots of places (the code that is flagging this warning is in the "virtual operating system" part of the tools which is an interface we have to ensure consistency across different platforms).
Regards,
Andrew.
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