The steps above are not supposed to fix anything, they just provide information.
You say "same error" - but clearly now it's a new error, if VNL will not start up properly, whereas before it was atkpython_exec that failed? What are the precise (very exact) steps to reproduce it (which directory what VNL started in, with what command line, what do you do to trigger the error)?
Maybe you tried to start VNL as root this time? Try running it as a regular user, if this was the case. We'll try to set up our own RH 6.5 machine and test if this is a generic problem.