Gnome does not start anymore after the installation of the new packages in RHEL6.

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Issue

  • Gui does not start anymore after the installation of several packages.
  • At the reboot, the launch bar of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 remains white and the graphical interface does not appear.
  • Tried to boot system directly in runlevel5 and using startx command in runlevel3. But getting following messages. when trying to launch gui using startx command:

    # startx
    xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.14305
    /usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/X: undefined symbol: pixman_f_transform_bounds
    ........
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:39940): WARNING **: /usr/lib64/libnotify.so.1: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_get_allocation
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:39940): WARNING **: /usr/lib64/libgnome-desktop-2.so.11: undefined symbol: XRRGetOutputProperty
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:39940): WARNING **: /usr/lib64/libxklavier.so.15: undefined symbol: _XiGetDevicePresenceNotifyEvent
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:39940): WARNING **: /usr/lib64/libgnome-desktop-2.so.11: undefined symbol: XRRGetOutputProperty
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:39940): WARNING **: /usr/lib64/libvorbisfile.so.3: undefined symbol: vorbis_synthesis_idheader
    /usr/bin/gnome-session: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gnome-session: undefined symbol: gdk_x11_display_broadcast_startup_message
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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