[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop fails to start

[Petit Eric]

set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your
Mozilla directory. ?
emerge mono-addins , the best, but i don't know emerge, i m using RPM,
so the best is urpmi -a mono    : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Urpmi

2008/8/22 sft <shiftreduce at gmail.com>:
>
> I've emerged monodevelop and when trying to start it I got different
> exceptions.
>
> First, as root -
> test gac # monodevelop
> WARNING: Cannot find Mozilla directory containing libgtkembedmoz.so. Some
> Addins may not be able to function. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your
> Mozilla directory.
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: Cannot create /root/.config
> because a file with the same name already exists.
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Create () [0x00000]
>  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:Create ()
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path)
> [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Create () [0x00000]
>  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:Create ()
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path)
> [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Create () [0x00000]
>  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:Create ()
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path)
> [0x00000]
>  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000]
>  at Mono.Addins.AddinRegistry.CreateHostAddinsFile (System.String hostFile)
> [0x00000]
>  at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (System.String configDir) [0x00000]
>  at MonoDevelop.Core.Runtime.Initialize (Boolean updateAddinRegistry)
> [0x00000]
>  at MonoDevelop.Startup.SharpDevelopMain.Main (System.String[] args)
> [0x00000]
>
> And as a regular user :
> d at test ~ $ monodevelop
> WARNING: Cannot find Mozilla directory containing libgtkembedmoz.so. Some
> Addins may not be able to function. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your
> Mozilla directory.
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set
> to an instance of an object
>  at MonoDevelop.Core.Runtime.Initialize (Boolean updateAddinRegistry)
> [0x00000]
>  at MonoDevelop.Startup.SharpDevelopMain.Main (System.String[] args)
> [0x00000]
>
> I'm running
>  Mono JIT compiler version 1.9.1 (tarball)
> Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
>        TLS:           __thread
>        GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC)
>        SIGSEGV:       altstack
>        Notifications: epoll
>        Architecture:  x86
>        Disabled:      none
> Linux test.box 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
> 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> If anyone got a clue how to fix this.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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