[Mono-aspnet-list] ASP.Net starts crashing after a number of days...

[Tim Nelson]

I've got a (lightly used) ASP.Net service that is deployed under Mono
that runs fine. All of a sudden though beta testers report errors and
when I hit the service from a browser, I get the error (below).

Can someone get me some debugging steps to try and identify the problem?

----------------- ERROR -------------------

The section <authentication> can't be defined in this configuration
file (the allowed definition context is 'MachineToApplication').
(/var/www/html/Services/Web.config line 38)

Description: HTTP 400. Error processing request.

Stack Trace:

System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: The section
<authentication> can't be defined in this configuration file (the
allowed definition context is 'MachineToApplication').
(/var/www/html/Services/Web.config line 38)
  at System.Configuration.SectionInfo.ReadData
(System.Configuration.Configuration config, System.Xml.XmlReader
reader, Boolean overrideAllowed) [0x0007d] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/SectionInfo.cs:182
  at System.Configuration.SectionGroupInfo.ReadContent
(System.Xml.XmlReader reader, System.Configuration.Configuration
config, Boolean overrideAllowed, Boolean root) [0x0014b] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/SectionGroupInfo.cs:324
  at System.Configuration.SectionGroupInfo.ReadData
(System.Configuration.Configuration config, System.Xml.XmlReader
reader, Boolean overrideAllowed) [0x00018] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/SectionGroupInfo.cs:277
  at System.Configuration.SectionGroupInfo.ReadContent
(System.Xml.XmlReader reader, System.Configuration.Configuration
config, Boolean overrideAllowed, Boolean root) [0x0014b] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/SectionGroupInfo.cs:324
  at System.Configuration.SectionGroupInfo.ReadRootData
(System.Xml.XmlReader reader, System.Configuration.Configuration
config, Boolean overrideAllowed) [0x00007] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/SectionGroupInfo.cs:269
  at System.Configuration.Configuration.ReadConfigFile
(System.Xml.XmlReader reader, System.String fileName) [0x000ec] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/Configuration.cs:511
  at System.Configuration.Configuration.Load () [0x0004a] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/Configuration.cs:472
  at System.Configuration.Configuration.Init (IConfigSystem system,
System.String configPath, System.Configuration.Configuration parent)
[0x00065] in /root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/Configuration.cs:121
  at System.Configuration.Configuration..ctor
(System.Configuration.InternalConfigurationSystem system,
System.String locationSubPath) [0x0005c] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/Configuration.cs:83
  at System.Configuration.Configuration..ctor
(System.Configuration.InternalConfigurationSystem system,
System.String locationSubPath) [0x0003b] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/Configuration.cs:78
  at System.Configuration.InternalConfigurationFactory.Create
(System.Type typeConfigHost, System.Object[]
hostInitConfigurationParams) [0x0000e] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Configuration/System.Configuration/InternalConfigurationFactory.cs:42
  at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration
(System.String path, System.String site, System.String
locationSubPath, System.String server, System.String userName,
System.String password, Boolean fweb) [0x0006b] in
/root/mono-142439/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:322

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Version information: Mono Runtime Version: tarball Thu Dec 9 06:33:31
CST 2010; ASP.NET Version: 2.0.50727.1433