Re: failure to start

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alejandro Jakubi wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:00:54 -0300 (ART)
> From: Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi df uba ar>
> Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
>     <dia-list gnome org>
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: failure to start
>
> > I have installed the dia-win32-installer 0.94-pre1 on Win98, apparently
> > without any error, but it fails at starting. A DOS box opens first where the
> > following error messages appear:
>
> Hi again
>
> The solution to the starting problem was just changing the initial directory
> from "dia" to "dia\bin". Now dia works, though it keeps issuing warning
> messages to the DOS box about the missing font:
>
> ** (dia.exe:4291048253): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" falling
> back to "Sans 8"
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "NULL"
>
> MS Sans Serif is in its standard location c:\windows\fonts\sserif.fon and its
> description says that size 8 is available, so I guess that the problem lays
> in some configuration file.

Are you using GTK-Wimp (or is the latest version of Dia)?
If I recall correctly that looks like a known GTK Wimp bug.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/