[Mono-bugs] [Bug 79462][Maj] Changed - gmcs dies with "failed to create shadow copy"

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Changed by phbaer at npw.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79462

--- shadow/79462	2006-10-17 08:14:19.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/79462.tmp.25038	2006-10-19 06:18:58.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 Bug#: 79462
-Product: Mono: Compilers
+Product: Mono: Runtime
 Version: 1.1
 OS: unknown
 OS Details: Ubuntu 6.06/6.10 AMD64
 Status: REOPENED   
 Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Major
-Component: C#
+Component: misc
 AssignedTo: rharinath at novell.com                            
 ReportedBy: phbaer at npw.net               
 QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
 TargetMilestone: ---
 URL: 
 Summary: gmcs dies with "failed to create shadow copy"
@@ -119,6 +119,29 @@
 Contributors. www.mono-project.com
         TLS:           __thread
         GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC)
         SIGSEGV:       normal
         Disabled:      none
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From phbaer at npw.net  2006-10-19 06:18 -------
+I've played around with mono/metadata/appdomain.c a bit.
+
+'make_shadow_copy' (which was introduced in r64262) tries to create a
+temporary file using 'mono_mkstemp'. The pathname is assembled by
+'g_build_filename' which accepts a base and a NULL terminated list of
+path components. The base is the DynamicBase of the Mono domain
+(domain->setup->dynamic_base). Because string is NULL (at least the
+return value of 'mono_string_to_utf8') 'g_build_filename' also returns
+NULL. This is why mono_mkstemp fails!
+
+Is it the DynamicBase which is not initialized correctly? Is it
+ignored when creating new domains? Can it be configured somewhere? I
+actually don't know and do not have the time to investigate any further.
+
+Could anybody please have a look what is going wrong there? Would be
+great! I currently can only use the Mono environment here with a very
+ugly patch.
+
+Thanks!
+
+