Y: server exited before starting up

I just downloaded and compiled and installed Y 0.2.1 on Fedora Core 1, 
and when I started Y, I saw the following error message:

$ startY
Y: server exited before starting up

I ran gdb on the process and it appeared to be in a strcmp:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1085325184 (LWP 16699)]
0x00701f48 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x00701f48 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x0805a59b in fontFaceComparisonFunction (face1_v=0x89f320c,
    face2_v=0x89ef51c) at text/font.c:124
#2  0x080555b8 in indexAdd (self=0x89dcd24, obj=0x89f320c) at 
util/index.c:131
#3  0x0805a65b in loadFontFile (
    filename=0x89eeeec "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts/console8x16.pcf")
    at text/font.c:154
#4  0x0805a73d in fontScanDirectory (
    path=0x89ddeac "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts", recursiveLevels=254)
    at text/font.c:213
#5  0x0805a759 in fontScanDirectory (path=0x89d6854 "/usr/share/fonts",
    recursiveLevels=255) at text/font.c:209
#6  0x0805a8b0 in fontInitialise (serverConfig=0x89d542c) at text/font.c:253
#7  0x08051c60 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbff386b4) at main/y.c:239
(gdb)

Does anyone know what is wrong? I have the bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-2 
RPM installed.

-nand