Gnome/GIMP/GTK problem?

Whenever I attempt to start Gnome or GIMP from within Windowmaker 0.19 I get the following error message. ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): assertion "font != NULL" failed. ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 156 (gdk_font_id): assertion "font != NULL" failed. ** WARNING *

modem and PPP trouble

I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not dia