Both mouse & keyboard do not work in graphical mode after startx on RHEL6

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Issue

Both mouse & keyboard do not work in graphical mode after 'startx' on RHEL6.

Issue 'startx' command from console.

# startx

The 'startx' command completes, but mouse & keybord connected the machine do not seem to work, and the following error is logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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