Re: can't start gedit

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Try deleting the ~/.ICEauthority file and logging out and back in to
gnome.  This will get rid of any authentication tokens that may have been
left around.  See if that clears up your problems.

James.

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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, R.K.Aa wrote:

> 99 of 100 times i can't start gedit (latest) and this is the error
> message:
> 
> 
> 
> # gedit
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
> Broken pipe
> 
> 
> 
> IF it starts (extremely rare) - i get this output first:
> 
> # gedit
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> 
> ..
> 
> I ask about this in the gnome list cause i have seen that authentication
> error sprout on various occations, in different versions.
> Currently running Gnome October on (what once used to be) RH6.
> gnorpm also used to have that authentication message but DID start OK -
> the message seems to have vanished in Gnome October.
> 
> The "could not open help topis file NULL" is also a familiar line, when
> i've exited the Gnome session usually, that one, amongts heaps of
> others, scroll over the screen - can't see them all.
> 
> I'd appreciate hints on how to mend it all at least to the extent that i
> can run gedit.
> I can live with error messages as long as they don't hurt me ;)
> 
> 
> Kristin Aa.
> Oslo, Norway.
> 
> 
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