No Gnome Text

[Donald Perkovich]

I am running 5.2-RELEASE and use Gnome as my desktop environment.  A few 
weeks ago I started it up from startx and none of the gnome applications 
had any text.  It appears that the fonts are all zero width.  The menus 
are there, thie icons are there, but no text.  Applications that aren't 
gnome apps display text normally.  For example gEdit has no text in its 
menus, but NEdit looks normal.

I cannot find any indication of any error messages from X.  Its logs 
look OK. I tried upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6.  I installed KDE and its 
looks fine, but gnome applications (like gEdit or Eclipse built with 
gtk+) have no text.  I cannot find any indication of where the problem is.

What is the problem and how can I fix it?

Thanks,

Donald Perkovich