[MonoDevelop] Unable to start monodevelop - any ideas

[John Luke]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:45 +0100, PFJ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've compiled monodevelop from the svn repositories (updated libgdiplus,
> gtksourceview-sharp etc on a daily basis from the dev's trunk), but
> can't get it to run.
> 
> If I issue monodevelop from the command line, I'm getting the following
> throwback
> 
> 8-->
> System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination
> type.
> in <0x00074> Gtk.Widget:get_GdkWindow ()
> in <0x0003d> MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Dialogs.SplashScreenForm:OnExposeEvent
> (Gdk.EventExpose evt)

Are you perhaps using gtk 2.9 and running into this?
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=78540