[Mono-list] Mono on AMD64

[Vincent Arnoux]

Le mardi 16 août 2005 à 00:28 -0500, Marcus a écrit :
> I think I fixed my problem. This is going to sound strange, and I cannot 
> explain exactly why this behavior occurred. I just hope that it helps someone 
> who is searching the archives. I upgraded my system from Athlon to Athlon64 
> recently, moving from i585 SUSE to x86_64. I installed mono-1.1.8.3 from the 
> source tarball. The mono process would just freeze when I tried to use it. 
> However, I remembered that my SUSE 9.3 DVD had a copy of mono on it, and it 
> worked fine. I then used the SUSE 9.3 DVD version to build recent CVS version 
> of Mono. But when I tried to the recent CVS (after installing it and removing 
> Mono RPM from SUSE 9.3), it would freeze, too. Finally, I had a thought that 
> maybe I needed to remove ~/.wapi. It was just a hunch. Apparently, that fixed 
> my problems. I had kept /home when I upgraded and reinstalled SUSE, and 
> apparently, some newer versions of Mono do not like having the old ~/.wapi 
> around. I guess that's why the SUSE 9.3 RPM worked all right, but I'm not 
> really sure.

THANK YOU !
I am running on Ubuntu64 and I finally made it work thanks to your
advice.
It is a pity there is no 64 bits installer yet... (Daniel ? ;-) )

Vincent