Monodevelop hangs on startup

[Feathertail]

Binary package hint: monodevelop

This one is straightforward, if baffling: I installed Monodevelop from the repositories on Mint 7 (based on Ubuntu 9.04), and every time I try to launch it it just shows the first stage of the splash screen and hangs there.

The only terminal output I get is "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." This is the problem reported in Bug #212467, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/monodevelop/+bug/212467 . Following the instructions there seems to make that message go away, but then there's no terminal output at all; the thing just hangs same as usual.

System Monitor shows two Monodevelop processes with different IDs. One rapidly consumes about half of the CPU and 1 GB or so of memory, but is listed as having a Waiting Channel of "0." The other uses about 500 MB of memory and 0% CPU, and has a Waiting Channel of "do_wait." I think I saw it briefly where the two processes had the same ID and were each using about half the CPU, but that was only briefly, and it was back to normal the next time I looked at it.

No idea what the problem is.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 7
Package: monodevelop 2.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: monodevelop
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine LinuxMint package

[Salil (hellfeuer)]

It runs fine if you run it with -nologo. Still needs to be fixed though.

[Feathertail (feathertail-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed! This is a very "beat head on desk" moment. Many thanks, though!

Anyone know how I could get it to run as -nologo from GNOME-Do? >.>

[Feathertail (feathertail-deactivatedaccount)]

Wait, never mind. GNOME-Do doesn't let you edit command line arguments like AWN would, but the solution was obvious (just like everything else about GNOME-Do) ... just right-click and "Edit menu" up on the menu itself, pass the command line argument to Monodevelop there, then click-and-drag Monodevelop onto the dock just like normal. Et voila!

I don't know how you found that workaround, but I'm so relieved that you did. This problem was baffling me. Many thanks once again!

[Ryan Armstrong (software+ubuntu)]

Can we at least get this bug promoted to get some attention? It is absurd that a package won't run when starting "normally" and hasn't been commented on in a year or so. Everyone's just using the work-around and leaving new users to find this on their own every time?

[god (humper)]

Confirmed with linux-mint 10 Julia.

[god (humper)]

Adding --nologo seems to fix hanging but still produce attached errors into log.
Nevertheless - "--nologo" has to be added to corresponding monodevelop menu entry by default to spare user's confusion.

[psychodelian (psychodelian)]

--nologo works in Mint 9 Isadora thanks for the tip