JetBrains Rider hangs when creating solution file on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

JetBrains Rider hangs indefinitely when creating solution file on Ubuntu 16.04. Already restarted both Rider and my system.

Answer 1

I was getting the same issue (OS = Arch Linux). I'd also installed the dot net sdk and Rider from Snap. I had to:

1. Remove Rider using snapd remove rider
2. Install dotnet-sdk using sudo pacman -S dotnet-sdk
3. Install mono using sudo pacman -S mono
4. Download and install the Jetbrains Toolbox app and install Rider from there

Answer 2

In my case I found that my virtual machine did not have Mono installed. Killing and restarting the Rider process and selecting another project type prompted me to install mono using this URL: https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin-debian

With Mono installed I had to restart Rider once more before it would let me create an empty solution without hanging.