monodevelop throws error and will not launch from apt-get install

Bug #1692363 reported by Patrick Lewis
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
monodevelop (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

1. sudo apt-get install monodevelop

2. monodevelop
    ->
Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'MonoDevelop.Ide.IdeStartup:<>f__am$cache0' (9) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' or one of its dependencies. assembly:glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f type:<unknown type> member:<none>
  at MonoDevelop.Startup.MonoDevelopMain.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00001] in <82d585b0c97848899f0bd76b0349341d>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'MonoDevelop.Ide.IdeStartup:<>f__am$cache0' (9) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' or one of its dependencies. assembly:glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f type:<unknown type> member:<none>
  at MonoDevelop.Startup.MonoDevelopMain.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00001] in <82d585b0c97848899f0bd76b0349341d>:0

3. Does not run application

4. lsb_release -rd
    ->
        Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
        Release: 16.04

5. apt-cache policy monodevelop
    ->
        monodevelop:
          Installed: 5.10.0.871-2
          Candidate: 5.10.0.871-2
          Version table:
         *** 5.10.0.871-2 500
                500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
                500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
                100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Tags: monodevelop
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in monodevelop (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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