First off congratulations on the award!  Somehow I feel like I won something too.

I have built mojoPortal-2.2.3.9 from source using the firebird data layer, and made it through a successful setup.  However when loading the home page for the first time I get the following:

System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.Web.UI.Literal'.
at <0x00000> <unknown method>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.Assembly:InternalGetType (System.Reflection.Module,string,bool,bool)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetType (System.String name, Boolean throwOnError, Boolean ignoreCase) [0x00000]
at System.Web.Compilation.AspComponentFoundry+AssemblyFoundry.GetType (System.String componentName) [0x00000]
at System.Web.Compilation.AspComponentFoundry.GetComponentType (System.String foundryName, System.String tag) [0x00000]
at System.Web.UI.RootBuilder.GetChildControlType (System.String tagName, IDictionary attribs) [0x00000]
at System.Web.UI.ControlBuilder.CreateSubBuilder (System.String tagid, System.Collections.Hashtable atts, System.Type childType, System.Web.UI.TemplateParser parser, ILocation location) [0x00000]
at System.Web.Compilation.AspGenerator.ProcessTag (System.String tagid, System.Web.Compilation.TagAttributes atts, TagType tagtype) [0x00000]

This could be a mono bug,  could be mojoportal I don't know at this point.  Any hints/help would be great.  I have considered building from svn, but this is ultimately going into production so I figured a release version would be better.  In the meantime I'll keep at it.

  Thanks,

    Zak

mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 1.2.5.1 (tarball)
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC)
SIGSEGV: normal
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none

Zak, it's the same problem with my Gentoo. Read this for details  http://mojoportal.com/ForumThreadView.aspx?thread=1142&pageid=5&ItemID=22 . I'm afraid it's a Gentoo specific problem with some mirky dependencies, as Joe's SUSE works fine. If you find a solution, pls  post here. I use svn version and go without portage.

Zak, I can say what I tried. First, I simply replaced Literal with full and correct name. But the problem persisted. So it could be wise to replace it on the page tags level. So I first thought it don't like <asp:Literal tag and links it to the incorrect namespace. But I can't see why it occurs in Gentoo??? The same compiled mono version... It's a logical paradox. And I can't find way out.

I would make the tarball , put it in distfiles and copy ebuild for the svn version , but I can't see what for? The mojoPortal doesn't work anyway. The only way is to mail to mono ebuild maintainer at bugs.gentoo.org. But first it could be a good idea to simply verify it with other distributions.  

Joe, just out of curiosity and to get this straight but please correct me if I am wrong:

1)  You are able to run on mono currently (minus Web Parts)

2) You are using the latest mojoPortal (some probably not even in svn)

3) You use mono (mcs, mono, libgdiplus?) from svn

What subversion revision number is your mono checkout assuming the above conditions are true?

  BTW Thanks for helping figure this out.

    Zak

Anyhow I am still having problems but now it's with starting apache, however it is mono related.

BTW Bob

if you are running the svn version your mono -V output should look more like:

Mono JIT compiler version 1.2.6 (/trunk/ r90994)
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC)
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none

Also I do now have an ebuild that installs mono from svn,  but I am still testing it.  For example right now it should allow me to select a spefific revision, but that part is entirely untested.

Hope that helps.

Zak, it looks like this  with the latest  tarball. 

Mono JIT compiler version 20071210 (tarball)
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC)
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: x86
Disabled: none

With the svn is  the same. I'll try and experiment with kernel settings and flags and will try and compile with TLS=pthread.  Can you show your  USE?

Now running on the 1.2.6 release version.  It seems nice so far especially since a bug in the site menu rendering between firefox on windows vs. linux is gone.

Regarding Gentoo the ebuild version has been bumped up to 1.2.6 so this is very nice, but at least I have an ebuild that I can use to pull from svn if needed (I might even think about making an ebuild for mojoPortal itself).

    Zak

I am running 2.2.3.9 compiled with MonoDevelop.

The System.Web.UI.Literal bug has not been a problem since svn r90992, nor is it a problem with the current 1.2.6 release.   Actually current mono release seems to be working nicely.

I am not having database connection issues with firebird, I did however run into one bug in the DAL regarding some of the SQL.  

My guess is that you are running into database connection string/configuration issues, but without seeing the page's debug output it is difficult to tell more.  Hope you figure it out