Bug 248862

Summary:	lang/mono: Cannot create any new projects in monodevelop
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Dan Barowy <fbsd>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-mono (Nobody) <mono>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	linimon, mono, rene
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-qa
Version:	Latest	Flags:	koobs: maintainer-feedback? (mono) koobs: merge-quarterly?
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any

Description Dan Barowy 2020-08-23 22:05:02 UTC

The following error occurs when trying to create a new project from any template in MonoDevelop:

"
The project could not be created

The type initializer for 'MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildEvaluationContext' threw an exception.
"

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start MonoDevelop.
2. File -> New Solution...
3. Pick anything.  E.g., .NET Console Project (C#)
4. Click 'Next'
5. Type in a project name (e.g., 'foo')
6. Click 'Create'
7. Observe error in popup window.

Unfortunately, this completely prevents me from using MonoDevelop for anything but an already-existing project.

My configuration:

FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p8 amd64

MonoDevelop 7.6.11

$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 5.10.1.57 (5.10.1.57 Thu Aug  6 13:15:32 UTC 2020)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           __thread
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notification:  kqueue
	Architecture:  amd64
	Disabled:      none
	Misc:          softdebug 
	Interpreter:   yes
	LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
	GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

Comment 1 Dan Barowy 2020-08-24 17:38:32 UTC

This turns out to be worse than I initially thought.  I created a .NET Core project on a Linux machine and attempted to open it using MonoDevelop on FreeBSD.  Unfortunately, I get the same error.  So it appears that, at present, MonoDevelop is completely unusable.

Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2021-02-06 07:13:49 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: bapt
Date: Sat Feb  6 07:13:07 UTC 2021
New revision: 564192
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/564192

Log:
  Mark as broken:

  "
  The project could not be created

  The type initializer for 'MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildEvaluationContext' threw an exception.
  "
  This is confirmed by a users and by myself

  PR:		248862
  Submitted by:	fbsd@ettinsmoor.net

Changes:
  head/devel/monodevelop/Makefile

Comment 3 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer

2021-04-06 20:45:22 UTC

Removing expired port.