Question

Hi I’m trying to use mono-service2 to run a stock Windows Service Project from visual studio. I’m running this on debian with mono 2.0 and compiling with.

gmcs *.cs -pkg:dotnet 

I try and start with this (I’ve tried with -d set to the dir with the app and -n,-m set)

mono-service2 -l:service.lock --debug Program.exe 

The only code change is to add writelines for testing

Service1.cs

using System; using System.ServiceProcess;  namespace spikes {     public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase     {         public Service1()         {             InitializeComponent();         }          protected override void OnStart(string[] args)         {             Console.WriteLine('starting...');         }          protected override void OnStop()         {             Console.WriteLine('stopping....');         }     } } 

The resulting is this error

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall ---> System.DllNotFoundException: libMonoPosixHelper.so   at (wrapper managed-to-native) Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall:_L_ctermid ()   at Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall..cctor () [0x00000]   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---   at MonoServiceRunner.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 

Thanks for your help

Answer

I was missing the LD____LIBRARY____PATH env variable, so I added it in a csh for a test

#!/bin/csh setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .:/usr/local/lib mono-service2 -l:service.lock --debug Program.exe 

Answer 1

Where is your LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to? Is libMonoPosixHelper.so in there?