On Feb 28 08:51, Jon Clugston wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>
> > The problem is that I have not the faintest insight into .Net. This is
> > an application written in a language I don't know, using a class library
> > I don't know, using a compiler I don't know. And the executable isn't
> > even a Cygwin application so it doesn't call Cygwin functions. So I
> > have no idea what problem this application has. What on earth is it
> > trying to tell me?
> >
> > Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Item has already been
> > added. Key
> > in dictionary: 'tmp' Key being added: 'tmp'
> > at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue,
> > Boolean add)
> > at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
> > at System.Collections.Specialized.StringDictionary.Add(String key,
> > String value)
> > [etc.]
> >
>
> Just a guess, but it does look suspiciously like the name of an
> environment variable. Wasn't there some discussion lately about
> differing case environment variables ("tmp" as opposed to "TMP")?
Dead on, thanks! The definitions of tmp and temp in /etc/profile result
in a double definition of the %TMP% and %TEMP% dos variables from the
.Net applications POV and it's too dumb to handle that gracefully.
So the solution is, either we drop the tmp and temp definitions in
/etc/profile, or old .net apps should be started only after calling
`unset tmp temp' in bash.
Btw., tmp and temp are not preserved this way in tcsh's profile scripts.
So I'm wondering why we do it in /etc/profile. Can somebody give me a
management summary?
Corinna
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