Re: Suddenly developing problem

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:08 -0600, Jim Clark wrote:
> I am running 0.94-5.7.1 on RedHat, the same one I've been running
> happily for several years. (I tried to compile 0.95 but was unable to
> do so, and I haven't the time to get everything straight.)
>
> Today when I started dia it just failed. I launch it from an icon and
> it gave me:
>
>         
>         The Application "dia" has quit unexpectedly.
>         
>         You can inform the developers of what happened to help them
>         fix it. Or you can restart the application right now.
> (Why I can't do both is never mentioned....) Clicking the restart
> button did nothing. From the command line it just quits. No errors, no
> messages.
>
> OK, something's hosed. Let's reinstall and start over. I removed the
> rpm and reinstalled with the same version. And got the same error upon
> launching. But I can run as root from the command line, though I get
> this:
>         GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
>         Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
>         protocols specified are supported and host-based
>         authentication failed.
>
> It seems to work fine though. Anyone know what happened? 

The warning is Gnome related, has little to do with Dia, but with the
fact that you're doing something Gnomeish as run while runnning another
users (your) session.

Given that it works running as root, I'd say the problem lies in
your .dia directory.  Try moving it aside and see what happens.  If that
helps, you can move important bits back one at a time and see when it
breaks (or do a binary search, if you feel fancy:).  If you find the
culprit, we'd like to hear about it.

-Lars