Can't start garnome0.19.3 on Mandrake 8.2 - pango-fontset and gobject errors (locale?)

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

I've installed garnome 0.19.3 on Mandrake 8.2 in the home dir of a
specially created user (garnome). I created a .xsession file as per the
garnome website and have been attempting to start garnome from GDM by
selecting Xsession and logging in as garnome.

I don't get any further than the splash screen. The errors in
.xsession-errors appear to be locale related.

Any suggestions?

This is the contents of .xsession-errors:

SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/22530

** (gnome-session:22530): CRITICAL **: file pango-fontset.c: line 84 (pango_fontset_get_font): assertion `fontset != NULL' failed

[previous line repeated 20 times]

(gnome-session:22530): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1307 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

[previous line repeated 19 times]

** (gnome-session:22530): CRITICAL **: file pango-context.c: line 509 (fallback_engine_shape): assertion `font != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: file shape.c: line 74 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...

[above errors repeated over and over]

(gnome_segv2:22665): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(gnome_segv:22665): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(gnome_segv:22665): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local
_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/localhost.localdomain:0

(gnome_segv:22665): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  

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