Mono 5.x VB/ASPX compatibility issue

[bsobel]

I meant replace the ./vbnc script with a new shell script that write out the parameters, not the vb script or aspx page... We need to see what parameters are being passed, as I suspect one of the paths doesn't match so the script doesn't remove the first line from the file past from HS.

[zwolfpack]

the HS3 Lite machine which doesn't work see multiple paths of VBNC..

ICS-Pine64:~$ find / -name vbnc
/usr/bin/vbnc
/usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc
/root/vbnc

Only copies of scripts/commands living in directories in the command search path (PATH envar) are considered.

Presumably the file /root/vbnc was copied there by you, /root being root user's home directory...

1) what userid is your HS3 is running under? (usually root)
2) What is that user's PATH?

printenv PATH

Normally /root isn't in PATH, but if you've added that in, and it's prior to /usr/bin, /root/vbnc rather that /usr/bin/vbnc will be the one executed.

[Pete]

Removed vbnc from /root..dunno how it got there.

The computer boots up with a user ID ...pete

Runs HS3 using root

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ printenv PATH

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

looking at the .profile file do not see any reference to mono there.

When mono is running from homeseer for the plugins see it in htop as /usr/bin/mono /opt/HomeSeer/HSPI_OMNI.exe.

[bsobel]

Removed vbnc from /root..dunno how it got there.

The computer boots up with a user ID ...pete

Runs HS3 using root

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ printenv PATH

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

looking at the .profile file do not see any reference to mono there.

With it removed from root is it working?

[Pete]

Yes. Confirmed this by shutting down Homeseer and rebooting computer.

SSH'd to computer and reboot it just now testing again...computer did not start...doing a cold boot now...

After it auto started looked at the HS3 logs and all looks good.

Then shut down HS3 via gui and restarted it via ssh command line.

Not seeing any errors on HS3 start up.

Then shut it down again via the HS3 GUI and manually autostarted it via command line.

[zwolfpack]

Removed vbnc from /root..dunno how it got there.

The computer boots up with a user ID ...pete

Runs HS3 using root

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ printenv PATH

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

looking at the .profile file do not see any reference to mono there.

When mono is running from homeseer for the plugins see it in htop as /usr/bin/mono /opt/HomeSeer/HSPI_OMNI.exe.

Sorry, the PATH you displayed there is for user pete, not that of root. To get root's PATH, try

sudo bash -c 'printenv PATH'
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

[Pete]

root@ICS-Pine64:/# printenv PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

root@ICS-Pine64:/# exit
exit
pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ sudo bash -c 'printenv PATH'
[sudo] password for pete:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

root@ICS-Pine64:/home/pete# find / -name "vbnc*"
/usr/bin/vbnc
/usr/share/man/man1/vbnc.1.gz
/usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc
/usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc.rsp
/usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc.exe
root@ICS-Pine64:/home/pete#

[zwolfpack]

Looks like you've got something odd in one or more startup files. There are a few that may come into play:

~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.bash_profile

As well as the system wide ones /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile

Some of these are only run for login shells.

"~" represents the user's home directory. To check that,

printenv HOME

[Pete]

Thank you Z.

This is sort of bad cuz I log in a variety of ways...different users or root. Mostly root. The box was updated / upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 via ssh and root as I have no monitor connected to it.

root@ICS-Pine64:/usr/bin# printenv HOME
/root
root@ICS-Pine64:/usr/bin# exit
exit
pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ printenv HOME

will check out

~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.bash_profile

Only ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile exist on the two machines. No path statements there.

that said the HS3 Pro box is identically built except that it is running on an Intel iSeries versus an Arm CPU.

For a bit on the ARM could never update Mono because it was not there to update for the ARM 64 bit CPU.

The above written the Pine64 Arm is configured identically to the iSeries Intel box.

Installed mono from this guide (years now)...Download Stable Mono

The two boxes were running Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit and upgraded them to 18.04 this past year via SSH with no issues.

Both boxes are running HS3 V3.0.0.449 (Linux) and Mono V 5.18.0.225.

Arm computer is running Mono Architecture: arm64
Intel computer is running Mono Architecture: amd64

[Pete]

Any news?

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ which vbnc
/usr/bin/vbnc

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ type vbnc
vbnc is /usr/bin/vbnc

[zwolfpack]

Per post #20, I thought your issue was resolved, no?

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ which vbnc
/usr/bin/vbnc

pete@ICS-Pine64:~$ type vbnc
vbnc is /usr/bin/vbnc

This indicates all is well for user pete, but user root is what HS3 runs as, so that's whats important.

[Pete]

Not yet Z. Yes meant that VBNC was working with it out of the /root directory.

Works fine on the Intel CPU but not on the ARM CPU (Pine64 2Gb computer).

Still have the error below.



xxx

[zwolfpack]

Then following bsobel 's suggestion, temporarily modify /usr/bin/vbnc to log to a file like so:

#!/bin/bash
# mono vbnc invocation script patched for HS3 aspx compatability
logfile=/tmp/$(basename $0)$$.log
echo "$0 $@" > $logfile
for x
do
    if [[ $x =~ ^/tmp/ && -e $x ]]
    then
        (echo "------------"; echo "$x before"; head $x) >> $logfile
        sed -i '1{/#External/d}' $x
        (echo "++++++++++++"; echo "$x after"; head $x) >> $logfile
    fi
done
exec /usr/bin/mono --debug $MONO_OPTIONS /usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc.exe "$@"

This logs the vbnc command line and the before/after results of the edits added by the patch, to file /tmp/vbnc12345.log (where 12345 is the process id).

Example - after calling test.aspx, two log files appear in /tmp, vbnc26537.log and vbnc26558.log. First one contains

/usr/bin/vbnc /quiet /target:library /out:/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_g
lobal.asax_c0nog1vn.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/Microsoft.CSharp/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f1
1d50a3a/Microsoft.CSharp.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e0
89/System.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3
a/System.Configuration.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d5
0a3a/System.Web.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Data/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/S
ystem.Data.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.Services/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3
a/System.Web.Services.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Xml/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e
089/System.Xml.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Drawing/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a
/System.Drawing.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.EnterpriseServices/4.0.0.0__b03f
5f7f11d50a3a/System.EnterpriseServices.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.IdentityM
odel/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.IdentityModel.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/Sys
tem.Runtime.Serialization/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Serialization
.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Xaml/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xaml.dll
/r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.ServiceModel/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Servic
eModel.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.ServiceModel.Web/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e3
5/System.ServiceModel.Web.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/4.0.0.0__b77a5c56
1934e089/System.Core.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.Extensions/4.0.0.0__31b
f3856ad364e35/System.Web.Extensions.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Data.DataSet
Extensions/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll /r:/usr/l
ib/mono/gac/System.Xml.Linq/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.Linq.dll /r:/us
r/lib/mono/gac/System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/S
ystem.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.Dynamic
Data/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.DynamicData.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/S
ystem.Data.Linq/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.Linq.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/
gac/System.Web.ApplicationServices/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.Applicat
ionServices.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/HSCF.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/Hom
eSeerAPI.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/HomeSeerUtil.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bi
n/Scheduler.dll /r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll /noconfig /tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/6
2b0fdd2/App_global.asax_c0nog1vn_1.vb
------------
/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_c0nog1vn_1.vb before
#ExternalChecksum("/opt/HomeSeer/html/Global.asax","{406ea660-64cf-4c82-b6f0-42d
48172a799}","7AF4B1B52D1D332DD24F634F78F849DC")
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' <auto-generated>
'     This code was generated by a tool.
'     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
'
'     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
'     the code is regenerated.
' </auto-generated>
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
++++++++++++
/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_c0nog1vn_1.vb after
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' <auto-generated>
'     This code was generated by a tool.
'     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
'
'     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
'     the code is regenerated.
' </auto-generated>
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This demonstrates that the problematic line is removed by the patch.

[bsobel]

Pete earlier I suggest you replace the vbnc script with one that just prints out the arguments, can you do that and post what you see when ran?

[Pete]

Ran the above posted script.

Here is what I see in the vbnc18864.log

/usr/bin/vbnc /quiet /target:library /out:/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_f95889u0.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/Microsoft.CSharp/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.CSharp.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Data/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.Services/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Xml/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Drawing/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.EnterpriseServices/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.EnterpriseServices.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.IdentityModel/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.IdentityModel.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Runtime.Serialization/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Serialization.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Xaml/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xaml.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.ServiceModel/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.ServiceModel.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.ServiceModel.Web/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.ServiceModel.Web.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.Extensions/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.Extensions.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Data.DataSetExtensions/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Xml.Linq/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.Linq.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.DynamicData/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.DynamicData.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Data.Linq/4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.Linq.dll /r:/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Web.ApplicationServices/4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.ApplicationServices.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/CSScriptLibrary.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/HSCF.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/HomeSeerAPI.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/HomeSeerUtil.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/Mail.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/Mono.CSharp.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/RssToolkit.dll /r:/opt/HomeSeer/html/bin/Scheduler.dll /r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll /noconfig /tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_f95889u0_1.vb
------------
/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_f95889u0_1.vb before
#ExternalChecksum("/opt/HomeSeer/html/Global.asax","{406ea660-64cf-4c82-b6f0-42d48172a799}","7AF4B1B52D1D332DD24F634F78F849DC")
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' <auto-generated>
'     This code was generated by a tool.
'     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
'
'     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
'     the code is regenerated.
' </auto-generated>
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
++++++++++++
/tmp/root-temp-aspnet-0/62b0fdd2/App_global.asax_f95889u0_1.vb after
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' <auto-generated>
'     This code was generated by a tool.
'     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
'
'     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
'     the code is regenerated.
' </auto-generated>
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------