F-Spot won't start

[thephotoman]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On 10/15/06, thephotoman <rantman_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> After an upgrade to Edgy, F-Spot won't start for me.  Here's the output
>> I get:
>>
> [snip]
>> |** ERROR **: file class.c: line 2505 (mono_class_setup_parent): should
>> |not be reached
>> |aborting...
>> |Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Hmm... It runs fine here and the error messages are indicating that
> bits and pieces of Mono are missing. Before upgrading, did you have
> the meta-package ubuntu-desktop installed? Try installing it now and
> see if that fixes the problem:
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> 
> -Eamonn
> 

Apt tells me that ubuntu-desktop is installed and is the latest version. 
  The failure and output do not change.  Furthermore, there are no 
annoying third party repositories screwing things up, as far as I can 
tell.  Even re-installing or compiling F-spot does no good.