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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mandrew002@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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)

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

[-] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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