From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; BCD2000) Description of problem: I ran the latest series of updates to Enterprise Linux v. 3. I can get a Gnome session when logging in as root. When I log in as a normal user, it crashes immediately with the error: SESSION_MANAGER: local/xbeams.chem.yale.edu: tmp/.ICE-unix/8553 gnome-session: relocation error /usr/lib/fontconfig.so.1 undefined symbol FT_Get_BDF_Property. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to a Gnome session as a normal user (not root). 2. 3. Actual Results: It crashes and logs me out (see above error message) Expected Results: I should get a normal Gnome screen. Additional info: See above
Looks to me like you have a nonstandard copy of freetype in your path somehow?
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