Warnings popup on starting gedit

Hi all folks,

Fedora Core 2
(upgrade from RH8)
Gnome 2.6.0
Kernel 2.6.8-1
fontconfig-2.2.1-10

Each time evoking 'gedit' on terminal following
warnings popup;

$ gedit
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed
=20
(gedit:2781): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file
gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file):
assertion `filename !=3D NULL' failed

gedit started. =20

Kindly advise how to fix this problem.  TIA

B.R.
satimis

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