Kicked back to login screen after logging in, Debian 12 (lemm.ee)

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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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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 2 points 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

[-] Waffelson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Have you tried running xfce4 from a tty?

startxfce4

The terminal should write what the error is

[-] bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 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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