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
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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

        • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
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          1 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!

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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