ASP.NET vNext on Linux Ubuntu 14.04. Unable to load Kestrel

Question

I've installed mono 3.8.0, installed kvm and ran the kp=vm upgrade and

My K runtime version is as follows

Active Version Runtime Location Alias

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• 1.0.0-beta3 mono ~/.k/runtimes default

After running the kpm restore from the folder containing the project.json file I get an error while running the k kestrel command.

I guess the following error has to do with the libuv installation, which I also have installed - version 1.4.2, or at least I think so. Has anyone come across this error ?

System.InvalidOperationException: Unable to load application or execute command 'Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting'. Available commands: web, kestrel. at Microsoft.Framework.ApplicationHost.Program.ThrowEntryPointNotfoundException (Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.DefaultHost host, System.String applicationName, System.Exception innerException) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Microsoft.Framework.ApplicationHost.Program.ExecuteMain (Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.DefaultHost host, System.String applicationName, System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Microsoft.Framework.ApplicationHost.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Answer 1

Turns out that the problem was pretty simple. Although I had the kestrel command defined in the project.json file, I did not include the "Kestrel" dependency in the dependencies section.

Once I added that it worked.

Answer 2

For beta3, you need mono 3.12..