Re: Any luck with Mono?

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:10, Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi - I'm trying out dashboard, and i seem to be having some major issues
> installing mono on severn. I've tried both the most recent stable
> release (0.25.1 i think), and the most recent cvs. The error always
> occurs when trying to compile w/ mcs - running mono
> /usr/local/bin/mcs.exe always segfaults. It's not the source code's
> fault - i use it on rh9 and it works like a charm.
> 
> Maybe i missed something in the release notes, but this seems like a
> major issue (i can file something in bugzilla if noone here has gotten
> it working).

It's caused by exec-shield.  `echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield` is
a workaround until the right magic is present to handle turning it
on/off dynamically on a per-executable basis .

Cheers,

Jeremy