So when i try to use the Xorg command as a normal user, this is the error that it gives me :
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
but i don't understand, what are the "console users"? and when i switch to root it gives me another error :
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
So what is going on and what are the reason for each of these errors?
UPDATE: and the output of the command netstat -ln | grep -E '[.]X|:6[0-9][0-9][0-9]
is :
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 18044 @/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 47610 @/tmp/.X11-unix/X1
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 18045 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 47611 /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
but i don't understand, what are the "console users"?
It means you need to be running from the Linux text console, it actually does not matter what user you are. (Except that root
is always allowed). Confusing :).
There are two different examples of switching to the Linux text console (and back) here, depending on exactly how your system is configured:
Switch to a text console in Fedora
The details can vary, as to which numbered consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc) allow a text login, and which ones are used for graphical sessions (or not used at all).
I keep getting the message: "Cannot establish any listening sockets..."
You get an error message like:
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
This problem is very similar to the previous one. You will get this message possibly because the lock file was removed somehow or some other program which doesn't create a lock file is already listening on this port. You can check this by doing a
netstat -ln
. Xservers usually listen at tcp port 6000+, therefore if you have started your Xserver with the command line option:1
it will be listening on port 6001. Please check the article above for further information.
As this says, there is more information about what :0
, :1
, :2
mean, immediately above the quoted section:
https://www.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages/#index5h2
(Note that you are using a more modern X server config, which does not listen on any TCP ports. This is why your error happens in _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener, instead of _XSERVTransSocketInetCreateListener. But the principle is exactly the same).
When i tried Xorg :2 in my virtual machine with Kali, the screen went black, why did this happen?
A-ha, yes :-D. Xorg is a graphics server. If you want to show some graphics on it, you need to run some client programs.
Xorg also starts up with an empty cursor nowadays. It's deliberately featureless, to avoid flashes / inconsistencies when starting your graphical stuff. This has changed - when I first used Xorg, the default background and cursor were quite obtrusive. If you want to see what that looked like, you can pass the -retro
option :-).
Traditionally - and I think this is the behaviour with Xwrapper - Xorg would grab an unused console and switch to it. In this case you can switch back to your previous console (see above). Of course you can switch back again to the Xorg server, once you find which number console it grabbed :-).
If you are running a virtual machine on Linux, your VM will provide some method to inject the key combination Ctrl+Alt+F1 or whatever, because pressing that key combination probably switches consoles on your real machine.
I would tell you to compare startx -- :2
, which (hopefully) launches some clients as well as an X server :-). However, the most popular modern GUIs now explicitly do not support multiple sessions. So you must make sure to logout your existing GUI session, before you run startx
. Otherwise, it might look like it works, but then go wrong in weird ways that you don't understand.
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