Graphical GDM Session over VNC dies after login

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Try to login through GUI console, password is accepted but login screen just reappears, Gnome does not load

  • We have been trying to configure xlock on one of our redhat servers. However when the display variable is not set, we encounter the following error:

Error: Cannot open dispalay localhost:10.0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Desktop

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