I installed RHEL6 in a pretty old machine. The installation went perfectly fine and after installation, I did the below steps.
- Registered the machine with the satellite.
- Ran the
yum updatecommand to receive the latest updates for this machine.
The above 2 steps went on perfectly fine. Now, after configuring the firewall and network as a routine step, I restarted the machine.
Now, the machine is stuck in the RHEL6 symbol page. It is neither going to the login page nor allowing me to login to the text mode. However, ssh to this machine is working fine.
So, I checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log in 2 machines. (First machine has perfectly working X server and the second machine is the one where it is stuck in RHEL6 symbol).
I found couple of warnings like below in the faulty machine.
[ 102.453] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted [ 102.453] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted Also, in the faulty machine, my log abruptly ends at this line.
[ 102.718] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 270 However, in the working machine, after the above log message I see that keyboard registry and other things are being recorded in the log.
So, where is the problem in this newly installed machine? Is it a driver issue? Or is it something related to corrupted hard disk? How should I resolve this?
I tried the below step but it is not working.
X -configure which gave me the error as,
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed. Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file. 
