[Mono-osx] MonoDevelop exits with code 255

[Eric J. M. Smith]

Greetings,

As an attempt to resolve my debugger issues, I upgraded Mono to 2.10.5, but now whenever I try to start MonoDevelop (both 2.6 and 2.5), the app immediately exits with the following console message:

([0x0-0xc10c1].com.ximian.monodevelop[3745]) Exited with exit code: 255


Upon further exploration, I turned up the following log:

FATAL ERROR [2011-09-11 23:40:14Z]: MonoDevelop failed to start. Some of the assemblies required to run MonoDevelop (for example gtk-sharp, gnome-sharp or gtkhtml-sharp) may not be properly installed in the GAC.
System.DllNotFoundException: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.5/lib/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_init (int&,intptr&)
  at Gtk.Application.do_init (System.String progname, System.String[]& args, Boolean check) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Gtk.Application.Init (System.String progname, System.String[]& args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at MonoDevelop.Ide.IdeStartup.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00186] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/monodevelop-mac-2.6/7a6fef40/source/monodevelop/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide/IdeStartup.cs:98 
  at MonoDevelop.Startup.MonoDevelopMain.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00017] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/monodevelop-mac-2.6/7a6fef40/source/monodevelop/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Startup/MonoDevelop.Startup/MonoDevelopMain.cs:24 


I can verify that libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib is where it's expected to be.  Stackoverflow.com has a thread about this problem, but the proposed solution is to fall back to 2.10.4, which isn't viable for us.  Does anybody know of a better solution for this problem?

Thanks,

Eric Smith
Tarkvara Design Inc.