[Mono-list] Strange warnings + random crashes

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
15 May 2003 16:15:15 +0100


On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 10:58, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For no apparent reason, these warnings have suddenly begun to appear:
> 
> * (process:1109): WARNING **: Shared memory sanity check failed.
> 
> ** (process:1109): WARNING **: Failed to attach shared memory! Falling back to 
> non-shared handles
> Compilation succeeded

That means that something corrupted the shared data file in ~/.wapi

You can delete this directory and it will be recreated next time mono
starts.

> 
> And since those warnings began, my app has begun to randomly freeze
> the system, forcing me to reboot.

I suggest you run memtest86 for a while.  It sounds like you have some
hardware issues (which could easily have caused the corruption mentioned
above.)

- Dick