gacutil of mono hangs just after starting it

[Nikita Frolov]

Binary package hint: mono-gac

Gacutil hangs everytime when it is invoked. Hanging doesn't depend on passed options, it occurs even on "gacutil --help" or on simple "gacutil". There's no means to terminate it - neither with ctrl+c in terminal, nor with sending TERM or KILL signals.

Version of mono-gac is 1.2.3.1-1ubuntu1. Distro used is ubuntu feisty (up-to-date). I've encountered this bug when apt tried to update libevolution-cil - preinstall script execution seemed to last forever, after trying to kill processes it spawned gacutil was only that didn't stop.

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Please set the MONO_OPTIONS environment variable to "--trace", and try running gacutil --help

Paste the results into a text file, and attach to this bug.

Alternatively, if the problem no longer occurs for you, close the bug as "Invalid" or "Fix Released" depending on whether the bug went away after an upgrade or for some other reason

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Attached log. Happening on Karmic, amd64, blocking all mono package installs.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

This went away after a reboot... ?

[Ryan Hass (ryanhass)]

Rebooting my system and attempting to reinstall did not correct the issue for me. My system consistently hangs when attempting to install assemblies into mono.