[Mono-bugs] [Bug 75397][Maj] Changed - Mono 1.1.8.1 hangs during compiling.

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Changed by miguel at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=75397

--- shadow/75397	2005-06-28 01:57:34.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/75397.tmp.30688	2005-06-30 16:38:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Bug#: 75397
 Product: Mono: Runtime
 Version: 1.1
 OS: other
 OS Details: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 i386
-Status: NEW   
-Resolution: 
+Status: RESOLVED   
+Resolution: FIXED
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Major
 Component: io-layer
 AssignedTo: dick at ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org               
 QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
@@ -234,6 +234,30 @@
 
 
 ------- Additional Comments From bmaurer at users.sf.net  2005-06-28 01:57 -------
 hrm, the version number of the wapi file was already bumped from the
 time this was made. But, the question is: how did the wapi file get
 into this strage state
+
+------- Additional Comments From miguel at ximian.com  2005-06-30 16:38 -------
+Hello,
+
+   We ran into something simliar today, and we tracked this down.
+
+The problem was that that we have a global SysV semaphore created in a
+per-user basis on the system.  The way we find about this semaphore is
+through the .wapi file.  If the .wapi directory is deleted (which
+happens with clean builds for example) without shutting this semaphore
+down you will encounter this problem.
+
+We had the exact same symptoms.  The new version of Mono will display
+the error message instead of sitting there waiting.  
+
+The problem was due to the way we build our Mono, so Dick wrote a
+small program that will cleanly shut this down, but we have not
+integrated this into the build yet.
+
+try as root to run `ipcs', you should see a number of semaphores with
+nsems=8 permission=600, those are most likely monos.  You must remove
+all the ones you are not using.  
+
+