System.InvalidOperationException compiling ASP.NET app on Mono - asp.net

Question

This is the error I get when I start my ASP.NET application in Mono:
System.InvalidOperationException: The process must exit before getting the requested information.
at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_ExitCode () [0x00044] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System/System.Diagnostics/Process.cs:149
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Diagnostics.Process:get_ExitCode ()
at Mono.CSharp.CSharpCodeCompiler.CompileFromFileBatch (System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters options, System.String[] fileNames) [0x001ee] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System/Microsoft.CSharp/CSharpCodeCompiler.cs:267
at Mono.CSharp.CSharpCodeCompiler.CompileAssemblyFromFileBatch (System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters options, System.String[] fileNames) [0x00011] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System/Microsoft.CSharp/CSharpCodeCompiler.cs:156
at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CodeDomProvider.CompileAssemblyFromFile (System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters options, System.String[] fileNames) [0x00014] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System/System.CodeDom.Compiler/CodeDomProvider.cs:119
at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.BuildAssembly (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath, System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters options) [0x0022f] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/AssemblyBuilder.cs:804
at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.BuildAssembly (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath) [0x00000] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/AssemblyBuilder.cs:730
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GenerateAssembly (System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder abuilder, System.Web.Compilation.BuildProviderGroup group, System.Web.VirtualPath vp, Boolean debug) [0x00254] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:624
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.BuildInner (System.Web.VirtualPath vp, Boolean debug) [0x0011c] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:411
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.Build (System.Web.VirtualPath vp) [0x00050] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:356
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetCompiledType (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath) [0x0003a] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:803
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath, System.Type requiredBaseType) [0x0000c] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:500
at System.Web.UI.PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance (System.String virtualPath, System.String inputFile, System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x0001c] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.UI/PageParser.cs:161
at System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String requestType, System.String url, System.String path) [0x00000] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.UI/PageHandlerFactory.cs:45
at System.Web.HttpApplication.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String url, Boolean ignoreContextHandler) [0x00055] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpApplication.cs:1643
at System.Web.HttpApplication.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String url) [0x00000] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpApplication.cs:1624
at System.Web.HttpApplication+<Pipeline>c__Iterator2.MoveNext () [0x0075f] in /usr/src/mono-2.6.3/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpApplication.cs:1259
I checked the source code indicated by the stacktrace, namely :CSharpCodeCompiler.cs:267
mcs.WaitForExit();
result.NativeCompilerReturnValue = mcs.ExitCode; //this throws the exception
I have no ideea if this is a bug in Mono, or if my App is doing something it shoudn't.
A simple "Hello World" application indicates that Mono is properly installed and working, It is just my app that is causing this exception to be thrown.
Hoping some enlighted minds have more on the issue
I'm runing Apache + mod_mono 2.6.3 on a CentOS 5.4 server.
What seems to make the difference between a simple "Hello World" and my application, is that there is a TON of stuff going on in Global.asax's Application_Start(). There are TCP sockets opened (and closed), tens of new threads spawned (arround 80) and various services started and closed. In a normal Windows + IIS server, the App would take up to 30 seconds to start. Why would this make a difference in Mono though ?
Edit:
Interestingly enough, one way to circumvent this problem is to move ALL the code from Application_Start into a separate async process:
void Application_Start()
{
var t = new System.Threading.Thread(new ThreadStart(this.Async_Application_Start));
t.Start();
}
void Async_Application_Start()
{
... Lots of stuff going on here..
log('Async Application Start is done!'); // this actually gets logged, so the code DOES execute and end
}

Answer 1

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