[Mono-list] Mono on AMD64

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> 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.

Mhm, that does ring a bell, someone else had mentioned that a few days
ago.  I guess we need to take care of this.

Could you file a report?

> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 15 August 2005 11:41 pm, Marcus wrote:
> > Is there some special trick to getting Mono to run on AMD64? I downloaded
> > and built mono-1.1.8.3 on SUSE 9.3 x86_64. Attempting to run mono apps like
> > mcs (even with no parameters) just results in Mono's consuming lots of CPU
> > time.
> 
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Miguel de Icaza <miguel at ximian.com>