Comment 4 for bug 1682779

I had quite big problems, because my disk crashed and I installed a new system and now I cannot open solutions. It was strange for me, that in another computer with the same version of monodevelop I can open projects.

After some tests I found out an interesting detail. If I open a solution with displaying file open dialog by selecting Open from menu or startup screen, the monodevelop crashes. On another computer I never open it that way. I always use recently used solutions, which are shown on the startup screen. I did not know why one monodevelop is working and another is not. When I tried to open a solution the same way, it crashed too.

The workaround for me now is to copy ~/.recently.used file to a new computer and open a project from startup page. In that way, monodevelop does not crash. I hope all other functions will work.

Unfortunately, I have no idea, how to make a new project.

This is a very nasty bug, which prevents users to use MonoDevelop in Ubuntu 17.04. I have tried it on two computers and got the same error on both. So I can pretty surely claim that it is repeatable on any Ubuntu 17.04 with Monodevelop that is provided their by default.