[Mono-dev] Unable to work with Configuration files

[Sebastien Pouliot]

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:23 -0700, vinay_rk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I run my  app (that is built using XBuild) in Mono from the command
> prompt (using command Mono <exe name> ) , I always get the below error
> whenever the app tries to access the config file. Basically the App is
> trying to open some custom config sections. 

That looks like custom code, not just custom config, since I do not find
ClientConfigurationHost in /mcs/class. Could you be using a 3rd party
library that is not compatible with Mono ?

In any case code that depends on WindowsIdentity.Impersonate won't work
under Mono (nor on old Windows operating systems).

> Error:
> FATAL    [1    ] System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException:
> Configuratio
> n system failed to initialize --->
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsExcep
> tion: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Couldn't impersonate
> token
> . ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Couldn't impersonate token.
>   at System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext..ctor (IntPtr
> token)
> [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.Impersonate (IntPtr
> userToken) [0
> x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationHost.Impersonate () [0x00000]
> in <f
> ilename unknown>:0
>   at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Impersonate () [0x00000]
> in <f
> ilename unknown>:0
>   at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.InitConfigFromFile ()
> [0x00000
> ] in <filename unknown>:0
>   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>   at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.ThrowIfErrors (Boolean
> ignor
> eLocal) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfParseErrors
> (System.Con
> figuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors schemaErrors) [0x00000] in <filename
> unknow
> n>:0
>   at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfInitErrors ()
> [0x00000]
>  in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit
> (System.String co
> nfigKey) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>   at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit
> (System.String co
> nfigKey) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> 
> -Vinay