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Hawk Griffith
Hawk Griffith

Reputation: 11

installing intellij with failing to initialize graphics environment

I am installing intellij in the development machine, linux system, but when i run the bin/idea.sh, then installing program shows

"X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Failed to initialize graphics environment"

what's wrong with it

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6990

Answers (3)

johncorner06
johncorner06

Reputation: 97

If you want to run as root, then you can do this(below is for clion but should work for intellij as well) -

This error occurs because the default configuration of the X server permissions does not allow the root to connect to it. To verify this, we used xhost X server access control program to check the permissions. Executing xhost with no command line arguments gave us a message indicating whether or not access control was currently enabled, followed by the list of those users allowed to connect. For example in our case the output was as follows:

[george@bytefreaks bin]$ xhost

access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect SI:localuser:george To add root to the list of users that was allowed to start an X application we executed the following command:

[george@bytefreaks bin]$ xhost +si:localuser:root
localuser:root being added to access control list

Executing xhost again, we got the updated list which included the root

[george@bytefreaks bin]$ xhost

access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect SI:localuser:root SI:localuser:george After this, we were able to start CLion using sudo with no problems.

[george@bytefreaks bin]$ sudo ./clion.sh

Note: This patch is not permanent, we actually execute it once at every restart of the machine.

Source - https://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/start-clion-as-root-on-fedora

Upvotes: 0

Eugene Kovalev
Eugene Kovalev

Reputation: 3837

  1. As @harivicky mentioned, you're probably trying to run the app using not your main_user, but root or something else. Just run:
    • sudo su main_user
    • ./idea.sh

  1. Also, you may want to be able to run IDEA for different users like: main_user, root, dummy_user1, dummy_user2, etc.

    In this case, you must provide access to a display as the main_user:

    • sudo su main_user - switch to the main_user
    • xhost + - add access for a display to all users
    • sudo su root - switch to the root
    • ./idea.sh - as you see now you can run apps using different users

[1, 2] - work for Ubuntu 17.10

Update: The next day I couldn't run ./idea because some errors appeared. So I did this:

  • added export DISPLAY=:1 to the /etc/environment file
  • sudo su main_user
  • sudo su root (this login switch is required in order to apply changes in /etc/environment )

Upvotes: 0

harivicky
harivicky

Reputation: 39

Problem is you are running the idea.sh as root. Try running it again as a user it will start.

Upvotes: 3

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