[MonoDevelop] [MonoTouch] My MD freezes while debugging on Simulator

Thu Sep 13 09:02:12 UTC 2012

Hi,

As far as I can see, nothing was done with this ticket
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6450

This is utterly frustrating. I have this app that is being developed,
and it crashes at random times. I have not been able to find any pattern
or logic in these crashes.

The only approach (and please speak up if there are other and/or better
ones) to diagnose these crashes is to permanently debug the app in the
simulator, wait until it crashes and investigate the crash in
monodevelop.

But my monodevelop hangs soon after starting the debug session. It does
this consistently! I can not ever debug more than say 5 minutes before
it hangs. Utterly useless and very very frustrating.

So can somebody please look into this ticket and at least help me so
that monodevelop gets usefull in debug mode. Or provide me with a
different approach to diagnose the cause of these crashes?

Desperately seeking help,

Guido

On 7 August 2012 18:20, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 August 2012 15:27, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf at xamarin.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like MonoDevelop is stuck / very busy printing out logging
>> information for a (recurring) gtk warning.
>>
>> I suggest you file a bug for MonoDevelop (http://bugzilla.xamarin.com) with
>> the log file you provided.
>
> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6450
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Guido
>
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6 August 2012 19:20, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf at xamarin.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > This is more for the monodevelop list, but in any case: when this
>>> > happens,
>>> > can you "kill -QUIT pid" the app first, then send the log file (should
>>> > be
>>>
>>> Neither the app nor MonoDevelop obey kill -QUIT
>>>
>>> I attach the log file. Here's what I've done:
>>>
>>> - just start fresh MonoDevelop
>>> - start debugging on the simulator
>>> - don't interact with either MooDevelop nor with Simulator
>>> - just wait couple of minutes
>>> - select MonoDevelop window to detect spinning rainbow ball
>>> - kill -QUIT the app process
>>> - kill -QUIT the MD process
>>> - The zipped log is available from
>>>   https://www.dropbox.com/s/bi6we880ir6gbne/MonoDevelop.log.zip
>>>
>>> Please do tell me if other stuff is needed to help pinpointing this
>>> problem, anything to solve this...
>>>
>>>
>>> > ~/Library/Logs/MonoDevelop-3.0/MonoDevelop.log - but it might be
>>> > different
>>> > if you're using a different MonoDevelop version or if you're running
>>> > multiple MonoDevelop instances at the same time).
>>> >
>>> > Rolf
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> When debugging on the simulator, my MD usually freezes after a varying
>>> >> period of inactivity. I want it to just keep running to catch any
>>> >> crashes, but it just freezes.
>>> >>
>>> >> The recipe is simple. I just start debugging the app, don't do
>>> >> anything on the keyboard or wit the mouse, and after a while (seconds,
>>> >> minutes...) MD and the Simulator are just frozen: the little rainbow
>>> >> wheel keeps spinning ...
>>> >>
>>> >> I have to kill the MD process (kill -KILL pid) to recover.
>>> >>
>>> >> This may wel be caused by the app, still it is very annoying. It has as
>>> >> side effect that I seldom run in debug mode, and usually do my
>>> >> debugging
>>> >> bmo console otput at strategic places.
>>> >>
>>> >> Any suggestions about how to tackle this?
>>> >>
>>> >> Version informationn follows (allthough this is not a recent problem:
>>> >> it
>>> >> has plagued me for as long as I can remember)
>>> >>
>>> >> MonoDevelop 3.0.3.5
>>> >> Installation UUID: 7981a2f1-e51d-4ee9-941a-f90b2222409b
>>> >> Runtime:
>>> >>         Mono 2.10.9 (tarball)
>>> >>         GTK 2.24.10
>>> >>         GTK# (2.12.0.0)
>>> >>         Package version: 210090011
>>> >> Apple Developer Tools:
>>> >>          Xcode 4.3.3 (1178)
>>> >>          Build 4E3002
>>> >> Monotouch: 5.2.12
>>> >> Mono for Android: 4.2.4.167234518 (Evaluation)
>>> >> Android SDK not found.
>>> >> Build information:
>>> >>         Release ID: 30003005
>>> >>         Git revision: 3d53e1366933298a3fe0cdc6d0f7d00c9916564c-dirty
>>> >>         Build date: 2012-07-27 19:06:34+0000
>>> >>         Xamarin addins: 73ecde7c48d943adb6e33d511d3cf0661d006801
>>> >> Operating System:
>>> >>         Mac OS X 10.7.4
>>> >>         Darwin zac.local 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0
>>> >>             Mon Apr  9 19:32:15 PDT 2012
>>> >>             root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>>
>>>
>>> Guido
>>>
>>> --
>>> When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.
>>>                 -- Chinese proverb
>>>
>>> http://vanhoecke.org ... and go2 places!
>>
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