Multiple Gnome applications crashing after a package update

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Multiple Gnome applications crashing after a package update, which involves an update to glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2
  • Evolution fails to start after the update
  • All gnome-panels are blank after the update

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
  • glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2
  • gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5
  • evolution

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