Dia aborts and cannot be used

[J. Bulterman]

The program Dia cannot be used under Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie.

Dia aborts with a segmentation fault. Starting from the command line gives a list of errors message, see the link below.
From the GUI the Dia title window comes up, and just when the main window appears it aborts.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=126974&p=851345#p851345

Jessie output (command line):
    The program 'dia-normal' received an X Window System error.
    This probably reflects a bug in the program.
    The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
      (Details: serial 3823 error_code 8 request_code 70 minor_code 0)
      (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
       that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
       To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
       option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
       backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Wheezy output (command line):
    (dia-normal:7235): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-label-select-on-focus after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-button-images after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-scrolled-window-placement after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-can-change-accels after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-popup-delay after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-popdown-delay after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-entry-select-on-focus after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-images after class was initialised
    sys:1: Warning: attempting to add an interface (DiaInteractiveRendererInterface) to class (DiaGdkRenderer) after class_init

    ** (dia-normal:7235): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion 'irenderer != NULL' failed

    ** (dia-normal:7235): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion 'irenderer != NULL' failed
    Segmentation fault

Dia does run well under Ubuntu 15.10 on a Pi (version 0.97.3), but not under Raspbian Wheezy (Dia 0.97.2) and Jessie (Dia 0.97.3). And I don't see any problems on x86 computers (several versions of Debian, Mint, Dia), so the problem must be somewhere in Raspbian.

[Pander (pander)]

Wheezy is no longer supported and Jessy has one year of LTS left. Can you reproduce this in Stretch or Buster? If not, please close this bug report.

[J. Bulterman (buja)]

This bug report can be closed.
An update of the Pixel GUI in Raspbian Jessie solved the matter in 2016.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Raspbian because there has been no activity for 60 days.]