Why gdm service is failing to start?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • GDM is failing to start with following messages in /var/log/messages:
gdm-simple-slave[xxxx]: WARNING: Could not start command '/usr/bin/Xorg -br -verbose': Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/Xorg" (No such file or directory)
gdm-simple-slave[xxxx]: WARNING: Could not start the X server (your graphical environment) due to some internal error. Please contact your system administrator or check your syslog to diagnose. In the meantime this display will be disabled.  Please restart GDM when the problem is corrected.
gdm-binary[xxxx]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.007200 seconds
gdm-binary[xxxx]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • gdm

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