F-Spot crashes on load

[Bill Crawford]

On Monday 06 October 2008 20:42:10 Dylan Semler wrote:

> ** (/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:4906): WARNING **: The following assembly
> referenced from /usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe could not be loaded:
>      Assembly:   NDesk.DBus    (assemblyref_index=9)
...
> I've (re)installed f-spot via yum with the same result.  I feel like it's a
> missing dependency.  Anyone know what it would be?

[root at bill ~]# yum search ndesk
======================================== Matched: ndesk 
========================================
ndesk-dbus.x86_64 : Managed C# implementation of DBus
ndesk-dbus-devel.i386 : Develpment files for the managed C# implementation of 
DBus
ndesk-dbus-devel.x86_64 : Develpment files for the managed C# implementation of 
DBus
ndesk-dbus-glib.x86_64 : Provides glib mainloop integration for ndesk-dbus
ndesk-dbus-glib-devel.i386 : Development files for ndesk-dbus-glib
ndesk-dbus-glib-devel.x86_64 : Development files for ndesk-dbus-glib

It looks as though the problem is yum thinks that f-spot is *providing* the 
requirement, but I may be misreading the output. Try running:

[root at bill ~]# yum whatprovides 'mono(NDesk.DBus)'
muine-0.8.8-3.fc8.x86_64 : Music Player for GNOME
Matched from:
Other       : mono(NDesk.DBus)



ndesk-dbus-0.6.0-1.fc8.x86_64 : Managed C# implementation of DBus
Matched from:
Other       : mono(NDesk.DBus)


...
and so on.