[Mono-winforms-list] Mono hangs after looking up XKeycodeToKeysym

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

You might want to post this to the general mono list 
(mono-list at lists.ximian.com) since it doesn't sound it's related to 
winforms. Chances are someone on that list might have more insight.

Cheers,
 Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: "Adam J. P. Wood" <AdamWood at xephi.co.uk>
To: <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
Date: Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 02:11
Subject: Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Mono hangs after looking up 
XKeycodeToKeysym


>I hate replying to myself but I have new information that might help 
>someone
>working on winforms.
>
>Setting the environment variable LC="C" makes it work.
>So # LC="C" mono prog.exe works fine (except under the wrong locale). I 
>think
>my LC variable is usally set to en_GB.utf8 and is probably the problem. 
>Maybe
>it isn't being set properly and I'll look into that. I got that nugget from
>the Gentoo forum where they say it happens because the String contructor 
>runs
>out of memory. I can't confirm this but if anyone can say whether this is
>Mono, Gentoo, or winforms problem I'll file a bug report with right people.
>
>On a side note, I was having trouble with #resgen too which might be locale
>related.
>
>I hope this info helps any one fixing bugs before the next big release,
>
>Adam
>
>
>On Monday 23 January 2006 22:00, Adam J. P. Wood wrote:
>> Accidentally repiled to author instead of the list, so I'm trying again. 
>> :)
>>
>> I'm not running a 64 bit processor, just an AMD Athlon XP.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Monday 23 January 2006 20:57, Peter Dennis Bartok wrote:
>> > Are you on a 64bit processor?
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: "Adam J. P. Wood" <AdamWood at xephi.co.uk>
>> > To: <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
>> > Date: 23 January, 2006 13:55
>> > Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Mono hangs after looking up
>> > XKeycodeToKeysym
>> >
>> > >Please help,
>> > >
>> > >I'm using mono on Linux and trying to run an app which has previously
>> > >worked
>> > >on windows. I think it is a problem with my Xorg configuration but I
>> > > can't figure it out.
>> > >
>> > >I'm using Gentoo, Xorg 6.8, and Mono 1.1.13
>> > >
>> > >When I start up mono with debugging output the app starts and prints
>> > > some console text. As it tries to open the first window obviously the
>> > > System.Windows.Forms assembly gets loaded and then a lot of lines 
>> > > like
>> > > the following:
>> > >
>> > >Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Probing 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Found as 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XFree'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Probing 'XFree'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Found as 'XFree'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XFreeModifiermap'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Probing 'XFreeModifiermap'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Found as 'XFreeModifiermap'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Probing 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.
>> > >Mono-INFO: Found as 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.
>> > >
>> > >The lines above are the last lines I get and then mono just hangs and
>> > >starts
>> > >eating cpu time without getting any further. I've since tried other 
>> > >apps
>> > >and
>> > >they all have the same effect. I can only assume after hours of 
>> > >playing
>> > >around that my keyboard settings are defunct but I don't see how.
>> > >Here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I have tried it both 
>> > >with
>> > > the commented lines working and disabled.
>> > >
>> > >Section "InputDevice"
>> > >        Identifier  "Keyboard1"
>> > >        Driver      "kbd"
>> > >#       Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>> > ># Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with 
>> > >xset(1))
>> > >#       Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
>> > >#       Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>> > >#       Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
>> > >EndSection
>> > >
>> > >Does anyone have any ideas?
>> > >
>> > >thanks,
>> > >
>> > >Adam Wood
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