[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop exception on startup

[Edward Diener]

I installed mono and monodevelop on CentOS 4.4 using the RHEL 4 YUM 
repo. The version is monodevelop 0.12.

Everything installed fine. When I went to start monodevelop, after a 
short time with the splash screen showing activity, I get this exception 
during main window initialization:

"System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown 
by the target of an invocation. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: 
An exception was thrown by the type initializer for 
System.Drawing.GDIPlus ---> System.DllNotFoundException: gdiplus.dll
   at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdiplusStartup 
(ulong&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupInput&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupOutput&)
   at System.Drawing.GDIPlus..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner 
exception stack trace ---
   at <0x00000> <unknown method>
   at System.Drawing.Image.InitFromStream (System.IO.Stream stream) 
[0x00000]
   at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor (System.Type type, System.String 
resource) [0x00000]
   at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor 
(System.Type,string)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Design.PropertyTab.get_Bitmap () [0x00000]
   at 
MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.PropertyGrid.PropertyGrid.AddPropertyTab 
(System.Windows.Forms.Design.PropertyTab tab) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.PropertyGrid.PropertyGrid..ctor 
(MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.PropertyGrid.EditorManager editorManager) 
[0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.PropertyGrid.PropertyGrid..ctor () 
[0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.PropertyPad..ctor () [0x00000]
   at <0x00000> <unknown method>
   at (wrapper managed-to-native) 
System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[])
   at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, 
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, 
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) 
[0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, 
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, 
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) 
[0x00000]
   at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr, 
System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, 
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000]
   at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] 
parameters) [0x00000]
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean 
nonPublic) [0x00000]
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Core.AddIns.AddIn.CreateObject (System.String 
className) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Codons.PadCodon.CreatePad () [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Codons.PadCodon.BuildItem (System.Object owner, 
System.Collections.ArrayList subItems, 
MonoDevelop.Core.AddIns.ConditionCollection conditions) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Core.AddIns.DefaultAddInTreeNode.BuildChildItems 
(System.Object caller) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Core.AddIns.AddInService.GetTreeItems (System.String 
path, System.Type itemType) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.DefaultWorkbench.InitializeLayout 
(IWorkbenchLayout workbenchLayout) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Workbench.Initialize (IProgressMonitor 
monitor) [0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.IdeApp.Initialize (IProgressMonitor monitor) 
[0x00000]
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.IdeStartup.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000]"

Any help in figuring out what is wrong in my installation would be 
appreciated.