When dotnet tool won't start up (failed to initialize) what environment variable do I set to get more verbose information?
<p>I know I've read on a blog somewhere or other that you can set some environment variable to give you more information when you have a crash at startup invoking the <code>dotnet</code> tool (asp.net core dotnet command line tool).</p>

<p>I'm using <code>dotnet</code> 1.0.0 rtm on an OpenSuSE linux system and it's crashing like this:</p>

<pre><code>&gt; dotnet version
Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500
</code></pre>

<p>To get more information about why, is there some environment variable I can set to tell me why it won't start up?</p>

<p>I do know you can get some unix system info with <code>dotnet --info</code> but that also crashes in my case with the same failed to initialize error.</p>

<p>I know I can do an strace (strace dotnet version) but I think there's something BUILT IN</p>