gnome2 - libXft

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hi!

i have installed gnome2 today via debian apt-get from the current
unstable distribution. when starting gnome via the xserver
startupscript, i get a glimpse of the splashscreen and then fall back to
shell. when i try to start gnome-panel from within xf86/windowmaker, i
can see the panels shortly then they disappear, leaving this error:

gnome-panel: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined
symbol: XRenderCompositeText8

maybe someone can give me a clue to solve this ?
i thought that it might even be something so simple as a missing font
... has there been any change in the default font for gnome2 ?

thanks a lot!

ciao,
ub