X broken

[Jason Montleon]

I have Fedora Core 6 Test 2 running in a virtual machine on a Fedora Core 5 
host running VMware Server 1.0.  FC6T2 installed fine, however I ran yum -y 
update last night, and after getting around a dependency failure with 
evolution-data-server and evolution-webecal, installed over 100 updates. 
Today I updated another 46 packages when I got home.  After that I closed my 
terminal and noticed that I was unable to open any application windows. 
After clicking on an launcher, what looked like a terminal window would 
flash on the screen and then nothing.

I rebooted at that point, and now X will not start in runlevel 5.  I have 
the system in runlevel 3 and it boots as one would expect, but I cannot get 
anything graphical working.  X -configure and 
system-config-display --reconfig both fail to work properly, and running 
startx gets as far as loading the background, and then it looks like panels 
and windows attempt to start but all die as fast as they come up.  On the 
plus side the mouse works, though with just a background it's pretty 
useless.

The following is what I consistently have on my display when killing X:
(nautilus:2205): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_new_private: 
assertion `text_uri != NULL' failed
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined 
symbol: cairo_xlib_surface_create

(nautilus:2211): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_new_private: 
assertion `text_uri != NULL' failed

(nautilus:2211): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_new_private: 
assertion `text_uri != NULL' failed
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined 
symbol: cairo_xlib_surface_create

(nautilus:2219): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_new_private: 
assertion `text_uri != NULL' failed

(nautilus:2219): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_new_private: 
assertion `text_uri != NULL' failed
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined 
symbol: cairo_xlib_surface_create
The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
xinit:  connection to X server lost.


To reiterate this is basically a clean install.  I installed, updated, 
updated a second time, installed firestarter, clamav, and clamav-update 
packages from extras before noticing the problem, and then rebooted. 
runlevel 3 works, but nothing graphical...

Best Regards,
Jason