

- Visual studio for mac isn't allowing me to open storyboard update#
- Visual studio for mac isn't allowing me to open storyboard full#
Update November 20: candidate fixes promoted to the stable channel Once that first process exits, new SpringBoard processes will appear repeatedly until the build host is disconnected. A "bad" connection will have an initial SpringBoard process that lasts for no more than 1.5 minutes (according to preliminary testing). Sudo newproc.d 2> /dev/null | grep SpringBoardĪ good connection will start exactly 1 instance of SpringBoard, and that one process will never exit. You can check if you have a "good" connection by watching the output of the following command in a Terminal window on the Mac build host: Reconnect to the build host using the refresh button in the VS toolbar.Disconnect from the build host using the disconnect button in the VS toolbar.It is possible to "work around" the issue by repeating the following steps until you get a "good" connection: Informal testing suggests that it only happens when running Windows in a VMWare Fusion VM on a Macbook Air (other Macbooks seem to work OK, as do physical Windows machines). This issue remains in the latest version, at least to some degree. The current alpha versions also contain these fixes.) Update December 16: not fully fixed (These versions are currently available on the beta channel and will soon be promoted to stable. Update March 22: new candidate fixes in Beta, appears to be completely fixed The mtbserver.log contains this "Maybe the renderer was restarted" message.The SpringBoard process restarts repeatedly on the Mac build host.There are other possible causes of the "(500) Internal Server Error", but the particular cause for this forum thread has 2 characteristic symptoms:

at .HandleRequest (ILoggingHelper logger, System.Object commandRequestState) in :0 at .SendRequest ( req, Boolean throwIfNotRunning) in :0
Visual studio for mac isn't allowing me to open storyboard full#
A full storyboard reload is required before doing an optimised reload. Corresponding error message from ~/Library/Logs/Xamarin/MonoTouchVS/mtbserver.log The new fixes have completely eliminated the problem in my local testing (I got "good" connections on 10 of 10 attempts). Two additional fixes for this problem have been added in:

Update March 26: new fixes promoted to stable, appears to be completely fixed
