Sorry for the repeated noise, I seem to have been right with my last comment. I'll attach a small testcase which leads to
stefanb@brick:/tmp$ mono NUnit-2.6.3/bin/nunit-console.exe assertthrows.dll -basepath=NUnit-2.6.3/bin/ NUnit-Console version 2.6.3.13278 (Preview) Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Charlie Poole. Copyright (C) 2002-2004 James W. Newkirk, Michael C. Two, Alexei A. Vorontsov. Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Philip Craig. All Rights Reserved. Runtime Environment - OS Version: Unix 3.5.0.41 CLR Version: 2.0.50727.1433 ( Mono 3.5 ( 2.10.8.1 (Debian 2.10.8.1-5ubuntu1) ) ) ProcessModel: Default DomainUsage: Single Execution Runtime: mono-3.5 Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for NUnit.Framework.AsyncInvocationRegion at (wrapper xdomain-invoke) NUnit.Core.RemoteTestRunner:Load (NUnit.Core.TestPackage) at NUnit.Util.TestDomain.Load (NUnit.Core.TestPackage package) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 Exception rethrown at [1]: ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: method at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Object firstArgument, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method, Boolean throwOnBindFailure, Boolean allowClosed) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method, Boolean throwOnBindFailure) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at NUnit.Framework.AsyncInvocationRegion..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke (System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy rp, IMessage msg, System.Exception& exc, System.Object[]& out_args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 ** Attachment added: "AssertThrowsAnonymousTest.cs" https://bugs.launchpad.net/nunitv2/+bug/1235891/+attachment/3862181/+files/AssertThrowsAnonymousTest.cs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of NUnit Developers, which is subscribed to NUnit V2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1235891 Title: Proposed 2.6.3 release: ArgumentNullException in NUnit.Framework.AsyncInvocationRegion..cctor Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework: New Bug description: I've built and run the tests of XMLUnit's trunk against the proposed 2.6.3 release assembly, all tests pass with 2.6.2. At least on Mono (2.10) on Linux I now see an ArgumentNullException - haven't tried any other environment. The test's code is https://sourceforge.net/p/xmlunit/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/xmlunit/src/tests /net-constraints/ValidationConstraintsTest.cs Error stack trace (copy pasting from an xterm): [nunit2] Test Case Failures: [nunit2] 1) net.sf.xmlunit.validation.ValidatorTest.ShouldThrowWhenValidatingInstanceAndSchemaIsInvalid : System.TypeInitializationException : An exception was thrown by the type initializer for NUnit.Framework.AsyncInvocationRegion [nunit2] ----> System.ArgumentNullException : Argument cannot be null. [nunit2] Parameter name: method [nunit2] at net.sf.xmlunit.validation.ValidatorTest.ShouldThrowWhenValidatingInstanceAndSchemaIsInvalid () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [nunit2] --ArgumentNullException [nunit2] at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Object firstArgument, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method, Boolean throwOnBindFailure, Boolean allowClosed) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [nunit2] at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method, Boolean throwOnBindFailure) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [nunit2] at System.Delegate.CreateDelegate (System.Type type, System.Reflection.MethodInfo method) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [nunit2] at NUnit.Framework.AsyncInvocationRegion..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nunitv2/+bug/1235891/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nunit-core Post to : nunit-core@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nunit-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp