[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop fails to start

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, sft <shiftreduce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

That's an odd error but I wouldn't reccommend running MD as root anyway.

> 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.

Don't worry about this error unless you want to play with the ASP.NET designer.

> 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.

What's your Mono.Addins version? If you're running Mono.Addins 0.3,
please upgrade to 0.3.1.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com