Error 8 occurred when building an executable due to file permission error?

[mgouin]

Hi, I'm using Labview 7.1.1, and I have a very similar problem.  Every time I try to build the application, I receive the following error message:

Error 8 occurred at C:\........\internal.llb\XXXX.vi

possible reason: LabVIEW: file permission error.

NI-488: DMA hardware error detected.

Every compile attempt is a different vi in the project.

Anyone saw this problem?

Thank you very much

[BCho]

Hey mgouin,

Have you checked out some of the proposed solutions to this error message in some of the forums that are linked to this one? Some of the forum threads give some pretty good advise in regards to what to look for and things to try. Would it be possible to post a screen shot of the error message? Does the error occur during the build process or when you try to run the .exe? Does the same error occur while trying to building other programs into executables, or does it seem to be isolated to this particular program?

Hope this helps.

-Ben

[mgouin]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for replying.  I checked the other solutions in this thread, but they don't apply to my problem.  I have Labview 7.1.1 and the japanese error file are not present in my installation directory.  I attached a screen shot of the error window.  The error happens *during* the build process and it halts it.  I don't have another project of the size of the one I'm trying to build (around 1000 VIs), but I was able to build a simple VI into an application.

Thanks for your help,

Mathieu

[BCho]

Hey mgouin-

I am not positive what you are referring to the 'Japanese error file.' Perhaps a little more clarification on that would be helpful. Since this error is pointing to a file permission error, I would check the file permissions of some of the files that are being reported by the error. It may be tedious to go through all 1000 vi's, but if you have an issue with the permission settings of one of the files, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that you also have the same issue with some of the other files causing your build to halt. An interesting test would be to include the vi that was listed in the error message you posted in your project and see if building an executable still produces the same error.

Hope this helps.

-Ben

[mgouin]

Hello and thanks to all for their support, but to conclude this thread, I just want to say that I finally found that I had a previous version of NIDAQ MX installed (7.2 instead of 7.4).  After upgrading to 7.4 that is used by the other developpers, I was able to build without problems.

I must admit that the error message was not too relevant to the problem...

[shepcMO]

Hello, I had the same problem with bulding exe. Having an old version of NIDAQ MX was also the problem for me.

[BigOod]

I had the same problem, when I was trying to build an labview application on linux. I was kinda getting the same error message which was hinting a the permission problem with this file /usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-2013/errors/Internet Toolkit-errors.txt. I just changed the permission of the file and the problem was fixed!

[BrantZ]

I am seeing this issue in LabVIEW 2018 x64 on a RedHat Linux machine. The offending file is /usr/local/lib64/LabVIEW-2018-64/errors/CurrentValueTable-errors.txt

The original permissions and owner were root and 755 (rwxr-xr-x), but after changing it to 777 (rwxrwxrwx), LabVIEW is able to build my application. However, the owner and group and permissions on the file are now changed. The file is not getting changed, so this very much seems like a bug with the application builder. There should be no reason the App Builder should be mucking about changing file owners especially if the file is not even being modified.

[musa_]

For me its the "/usr/local/lib64/LabVIEW-2022-64/errors/VI-Analyzer-errors.txt" file.

As you said the Application Builder is in need of file permissions. For an user who has "read" "write" "execute" rights the build goes through.

But if for example "write" permissions are missing it failes.

After starting a Build the file "/usr/local/lib64/LabVIEW-2022-64/errors/VI-Analyzer-errors.txt" has 755 as permission even though i changed it previously 777.