[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop won't start, seems not to be able to find a library

[Lluis Sanchez]

Mono should be loading libraries from directories in LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and /opt/mono-1.1.12/lib is being added in .bash_profile. What do you
get if you run this from a terminal?: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

El vie, 24-02-2006 a las 17:31 +1100, Karl Martindale escribió:
> It's alive!
> 
> Thanks for that Lluis, the log told me that while being loaded as you suggested 
> monodevelop was checking the current directory for it's libraries:
> 
> Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'gnomesharpglue-2'.
> Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libgnomesharpglue-2.so'.
> Mono-INFO: DllImport error loading library: 'libpanel-applet-2.so.0: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory'.
> Mono-INFO: DllImport loading library: './libgnomesharpglue-2.so'.
> 
> So when I ran:
> MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono /usr/local/lib/monodevelop/bin/MonoDevelop.exe > 
> ~/debug.log
> from the directory:
> /opt/mono-1.1.12/lib
> 
> Monodevelop runs starts up ok (it can't find a mozilla library, but still starts)
> 
> (MonoDevelop:22324): Mono-WARNING **: DllImport unable to load library 
> 'libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'.
> 
> My query now is, where do I tell mono / monodevelop where to find these 
> libraries so I don't need to start from the /mono/lib directory? I've got the 
> environment variables that I know about setup, are there more?
> 
> Thanks again for helping me get this far!
> 
> -Karl
> 
> 
> Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> > Try the following: cd to the directory where you have MonoDevelop
> > installed (something like /usr/lib/monodevelop/bin) and run:
> > 
> > MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MonoDevelop.exe > debug.log
> > 
> > Maybe the log has some clues about the problem. Look for gnomesharpglue.
> > 
> > El mié, 22-02-2006 a las 16:25 +1100, Karl Martindale escribió:
> > 
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I'm trying to set up monodevelop on a box at work so we can 'get mono' here :)
> >>The machine is running Slackware Linux 10.2
> >>
> >>I tried a number of the pre-compiled mono distributions before I found one that 
> >>monodevelop-0.9 would compile against, but found that 
> >>mono-1.1.12_0-installer.bin seemed to compile and install successfully.
> >>
> >>I've found a number of folk that have had similar sounding problems to me on 
> >>various forums and mailing lists.  I've tried to include information that covers 
> >>each of the solutions addressed elsewhere.  Unfortunately monodevelop still 
> >>doesn't start and this is my first taste of anything mono, so I'm kinda at loss 
> >>of what else to try.
> >>
> >>Another thing to note would be that although Gnome is no longer included as part 
> >>of the Slackware distribution I installed it using the freerock gnome projects 
> >>installer:
> >>lynx --source http://gsb.freerock.org/net-install | sh
> >>
> >>When I try and start monodevelop the error I get is:
> >>
> >>-------  CUT  -------
> >>System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type 
> >>initializer for Gnome.ModuleInfo ---> System.DllNotFoundException: gnomesharpglue-2
> >>in (wrapper managed-to-native) 
> >>Gnome.ModuleInfo:gnomesharp_gnome_moduleinfo_get_name_offset ()
> >>in <0x00008> Gnome.ModuleInfo:.cctor ()--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
> >>
> >>in <0x00000> <unknown method>
> >>in <0x00025> Gnome.Modules:get_UI ()
> >>in <0x00440> MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.IdeStartup:Run (System.String[] args)
> >>in <0x00169> MonoDevelop.Core.AddIns.AddInService:StartApplication 
> >>(System.String addinId, System.String[] parameters)
> >>-------  CUT  -------
> >>
> >>Mono related environment variable found in ~/.bash_profile are:
> >>export PATH="/opt/mono-1.1.12/bin:$PATH"
> >>export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
> >>export MANPATH="/opt/mono-1.1.12/share/man:$MANPATH"
> >>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
> >>export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/bin"
> >>
> >>-------
> >>result of "ls -l /opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/*gnomesharpglue*"
> >>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11988 2005-12-20 10:54 
> >>/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/libgnomesharpglue-2.so*
> >>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 12528 2005-12-20 10:54 
> >>/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/libgnomesharpglue.so*
> >>
> >>-------
> >>contents of /etc/ld.so.conf
> >>/usr/local/lib
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib
> >>/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
> >>/opt/kde/lib
> >>/usr/lib/qt/lib
> >>/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib
> >>
> >>-------
> >>output of "ldconfig -p | grep libgnomesharpglue"
> >>         libgnomesharpglue.so (libc6) => /opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/libgnomesharpglue.so
> >>         libgnomesharpglue-2.so (libc6) => 
> >>/opt/mono-1.1.12/lib/libgnomesharpglue-2.so
> >>-------
> >>
> >>Any suggestions as to what I'm missing will be gratefully received.
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>Karl.
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> > 
> > 
> >