Bug 50133 – monodevelop crashed on startup with System.NullReferenceException .

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description bugs.gentoo.org 2004-05-05 13:55:55 UTC]

Starting up monodevelop for the first time results in the 'Code Completion Druid' running. This crashes at the end. Next time I run it, it crashes again:

rutger@wingding ~/projects$ monodevelop 
Creating DefaultWorkbench

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object instance was required.
in (unmanaged) (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_main_iteration ()
in <0x00004> (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_main_iteration ()
in <0x00007> Gtk.Application:RunIteration ()
in [0x001ea] (at /var/tmp/portage/monodevelop-0.3/work/monodevelop-0.3/src/Main/Base/Commands/AutostartCommands.cs:205) MonoDevelop.Commands.StartWorkbenchCommand:Run ()
in [0x0020a] (at /var/tmp/portage/monodevelop-0.3/work/monodevelop-0.3/src/Main/StartUp/MonoDevelopMain.cs:118) MonoDevelop.SharpDevelopMain:Main (string[])


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="~x86" emerge monodevelop
2. run 'monodevelop'
3.

Actual Results:  
The crash above. Repeatable.

Expected Results:  
Open the IDE.


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0,
2.6.6-rc2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.6-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bidi bindist bonobo caps cddb
cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga dillo directfb dnd dvd emacs encode evo
faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib irda jack java javascript jbig jikes
joystick jpeg kde lcms libdsk libg++ libgda libwww linguas_en linguas_nl lirc
ltsp mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mpeg msn music
ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt
quicktime radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl skey sox speedo speex spell sse
ssl stencil-buffer t1lib tcltk tcpd theora tiff transparent-proxy truetype type1
usb v4l vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xemacs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid
yahoo zlib zvbi"

[Comment 1 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-06-02 20:08:29 UTC]

Can you please test with the new monodevelop-0.4 in portage and report if this issue is fixed?

[Comment 2 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-06-20 21:04:05 UTC]

no reply in 2 weeks. Marking WONTFIX; if it's still a problem please re-open.

[Comment 3 bugs.gentoo.org 2004-06-21 13:52:35 UTC]

I would love to add more information, but since I cannot install monodoc any more (0.17 in this case), I can't provide updated status on this package.