Gnome crashes when starting x!

["Devore Jacob" <jdevore interplay com>]

     When I use the startx command and have gnome-session in the .xinitrc 
     file in the root directory, logged on as root, I get the message
     
     Registering Priority(NULL)
     
     waiting for the xserver to shut down
     
     and it kicks me back to the bash shell.
     
     I am running on a digital UDB( alpha 166 ) with 128 megs of ram and a 
     4 gig scsi2 drive.  If I start x without the gnome-session x starts 
     fine with the crap ms 95 look alike shell.  I am running redhat linux 
     5.2 and the latest gnome rpms.  Enlightenment is my window manager.  
     Please help.
     
     jake