[Opensim-dev] [Opensim-users] Mono stability on OpenSuSE 13.2

[James Hughes]

Thanks for the info Oren,

Sounds like the Mono team needs to dig into that one :).

I reverted back to 13.1 for the time being, but I plan to keep 13.2 on
some virtual machines. I'll test on those.

Thanks,
BlueWall

On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 08:12 +0200, Oren Hurvitz wrote:
> The problem is that Mono often crashes on newer Linux kernels.
> OpenSuSe 13.1 comes with Linux kernel 3.11 (works ok), and OpenSuSe
> 13.2 comes with Linux kernel 3.16 (Mono crashes). In my tests, kernel
> 13.14 also crashes.
> 
> 
> You should be able to install kernel 3.11 over OpenSuse 13.2, if you
> want; that would solve your Mono problems.
> 
> 
> Of course, the *real* solution is for Mono to get fixed. But who knows
> when that will happen.
> 
> 
> Oren
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:11 AM, James Hughes
> <jamesh at bluewallgroup.com> wrote:
>         Hello All,
>         
>         I wanted to shoot out an email to relate my experience with
>         OpenSim on
>         OpenSuSE 13.2. There seems to be an underlying issue causing
>         Mono/OpenSim to be somewhat unstable. Regions crash frequently
>         leaving
>         stack traces like: http://pastebin.com/Rcxy6WrS . This was
>         experienced
>         on different machines: Intel, KDE / AMD, Gnome and under Mono
>         3.8.0 and
>         3.10.0.
>         
>         After reverting back to OpenSuSE 13.1, Mono and OpenSim are
>         very stable.
>         So, just a heads up if you are planning to upgrade to be
>         cautious and
>         have a backup plan in place.
>         
>         Thanks,
>         BlueWall
>         
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> 
> -- 
> Oren Hurvitz
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> Kitely Ltd.
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