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Kicked back to login screen after logging in, Debian 12

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:


<span style="color:#323232;">usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Fatal server error:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE) Server is already active for display 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please consult the X.org foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: giving up
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: unable to connect to C server: Resource temporarily unavailable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: server error
</span>
Brustadnrift ,

Nvidia drivers?

wildbus8979 ,

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

Mandrew002 OP ,

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 ,

Have you tried running xfce4 from a tty?

startxfce4

The terminal should write what the error is

bismuthbob ,
@bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz avatar

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!

Mandrew002 OP , (edited )

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

Here’s the output:


<span style="color:#323232;">usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Fatal server error:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE) Server is already active for display 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please consult the X.org foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(EE)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: giving up
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xinit: server error
</span>
Waffelson ,

Try to kill the xorg process

sudo pkill x

And then try run xfce4

Mandrew002 OP ,

I get the same error unfortunately

Mandrew002 OP ,

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

Waffelson ,

It’s great that you solved the problem

May I ask how you found the solution?

Mandrew002 OP ,

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