[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop runs, but "Help" and "Welcome Page" links do nothing

[Michael Altarriba]

I recently built a Parallel Development environment for mono 2.6.1 and 
monodevelop 2.2 on an Ubuntu machine running 9.10, one which also has 
the distribution's mono packages installed and running.

I have mono compiled and installed in /opt/mono, and the code for 
monodevelop compiled and installed in /opt/monodevelop

I source the following script:

#!/bin/bash
VERSION=2.6.1
#MONO_PREFIX=/opt/mono-$VERSION
MONO_PREFIX=/opt/mono
MONODEVELOP_PREFIX=/opt/monodevelop
GNOME_PREFIX=/opt/gnome
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/include:$GNOME_PREFIX/include
export ACLOCAL_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/share/aclocal
export 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$MONODEVELOP_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
export CONFIG_SITE=$HOME/.config/automake/config.site
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$MONODEVELOP_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
#export MONODEVELOP_LIBS=$MONODEVELOP_PREFIX/lib:/usr/lib
PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
PS1="[mono] \w > "

Then run monodevelop by calling /opt/monodevelop/bin/monodevelop

When I run monodevelop, the following is output on the command line:

[mono] ~ > WARNING [2010-03-08 20:45:25Z]: GLib-Warning: g_set_prgname() 
called multiple times
Stack trace:
   at GLib.Global.set_ProgramName(System.String value)
   at Gtk.Application.SetPrgname()
   at Gtk.Application.do_init(System.String progname, System.String[] 
ByRef args, Boolean check)
   at Gtk.Application.Init(System.String progname, System.String[] ByRef 
args)
   at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.IdeStartup.Run(System.String[] args) in 
/usr/local/src/mono-2.6.1/monodevelop-2.2/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui/IdeStartup.cs:line 
77
   at MonoDevelop.Startup.MonoDevelopMain.Main(System.String[] args) in 
/usr/local/src/mono-2.6.1/monodevelop-2.2/src/core/MonoDevelop.Startup/MonoDevelop.Startup/MonoDevelopMain.cs:line 
24
WARNING [2010-03-08 20:45:28Z]: Inotify watch limit is too low (8192).
MonoDevelop will switch to managed file watching.
See http://monodevelop.com/Inotify_Watches_Limit for more info.
node `classlib-gecko' is not defined on the documentation map
node `classlib-webkit' is not defined on the documentation map


Even so, monodevelop runs... I'm able to compile and run programs.


However, when I try to select any of the links on the welcome page, I 
see something like "Open http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page" in the 
bottom border, but no page opens. If I try this with the version of 
monodevelop which came with 9.10, firefox is correctly called, and a tab 
with the new page is opened.

Also, when I try "Help > Help   F1", or "Help > Web > MonoDevelop", 
nothing happens.

I'm trying to nail down why my build of monodevelop can't seem to access 
"Help" or web pages.

What should I be checking? Any assistance would be appreciated, and I'll 
be glad to provide more information.

Thanks...