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Kicked back to login screen after logging in, Debian 12 (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mandrew002@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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

(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 C server: Resource temporarily unavailable
xinit: server error
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[–] Brustadnrift@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nvidia drivers?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be helpful if you specified which desktop environment and manager...

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I said in the post, dwm was the main issue. I've tried booting into xfce too with to no avail and I'm using lightdm

[–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried running xfce4 from a tty?

startxfce4

The terminal should write what the error is

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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
[–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try to kill the xorg process

sudo pkill x

And then try run xfce4

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I fixed it by uninstalling the .Xauthority file from the tty and rebooting

[–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's great that you solved the problem

May I ask how you found the solution?

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

A random Indian guy on yt

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I get the same error unfortunately