Why does the "gnome-session" process failed to start on system ?

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Issue

  • "gnome-session" process failed to start on system. When trying to start system in gui mode using startx command getting below error:

    (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
    
  • It seems haldaemon is also not starting on system.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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