As the title states whenever I try to login and start the desktop environment I get kicked back to the login screen with no error message. Beforehand I was messing around with configuring dwm. I’ve tried updating through the tty and deleting dwmblocks (which is what I was messing with before all this)

Here’s the output when running startxfce4:

usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

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Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
                if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
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Please consult the X.org foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
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Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to C server: Resource temporarily unavailable
xinit: server error
  • @Waffelson
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    81 year ago

    Have you tried running xfce4 from a tty?

    startxfce4

    The terminal should write what the error is

    • Bob Smith
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      31 year ago

      This is a good tip.

      I’ve had to do this before when I ran in to issues with lightdm. Ctl +Alt F-Key to a tty and try the command for your window manager to make sure that your display manager isn’t the culprit.

      Or don’t, I guess. I’m not trying to boss you around. Good luck and let us know what works for you!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1 year ago

      I’ve tried running it with sudo to fix the authorization error but that didn’t work

      Here’s the output:

      usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
      
      (EE)
      Fatal server error:
      (EE) Server is already active for display 0
                      if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
      (EE)
      (EE)
      Please consult the X.org foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
      (EE)
      Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
      
      xinit: giving up
      xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable
      xinit: server error