[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop 2.8 crashes on startup

[Juan Pablo Romero Méndez]

Hello all,

Monodevelop crashes on startup with the following message:

FATAL ERROR [2011-10-10 18:17:13Z]: Unhandled Exception
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance
of an object
  at MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.MonoTargetRuntime+<GetGacDirectories>c__Iterator18.MoveNext
() [0x0006c] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies/MonoTargetRuntime.cs:158
  at MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.RuntimeAssemblyContext.GetGacFile
(System.String aname, Boolean allowPartialMatch) [0x001de] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies/RuntimeAssemblyContext.cs:108
  at MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.RuntimeAssemblyContext.GetAssemblyLocation
(System.String assemblyName, System.String package,
MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.TargetFramework fx) [0x000bf] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies/RuntimeAssemblyContext.cs:82
  at MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.ComposedAssemblyContext.GetAssemblyLocation
(System.String assemblyName, System.String package,
MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.TargetFramework fx) [0x00019] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies/ComposedAssemblyContext.cs:184
  at MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.ComposedAssemblyContext.GetAssemblyLocation
(System.String assemblyName,
MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies.TargetFramework fx) [0x00000] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.Assemblies/ComposedAssemblyContext.cs:178
  at MonoDevelop.AspNet.AspNetToolboxProvider+<GetFxAssemblies>c__Iterator8.MoveNext
() [0x0005e] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/addins/AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet/AspNetToolboxProvider.cs:58
  at System.Linq.Enumerable+<CreateWhereIterator>c__Iterator35`1[System.String].MoveNext
() [0x00089] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.10.2/mcs/class/System.Core/System.Linq/Enumerable.cs:3009
  at MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport.ToolboxService+<RegisterDefaultToolboxProvider>c__AnonStorey19.<>m__2E
(System.Object ) [0x00098] in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/monodevelop-2.8/src/addins/MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport/MonoDevelop.DesignerSupport/ToolboxService.cs:177


This is on opensuse 11.4.

Regards,

  Juan Pablo