Tdesktop: TELEGRAM FAILS TO START IN LINUX(KALI 2.0)

Created on 22 Feb 2018 · 5Comments · Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

My telegram desktop has been working fine since i installed it, until today, when i got this error while launching it.

AL lib: (WW) alc_initconfig: Failed to initialize backend "pulse"
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
AL lib: (EE) ALCcaptureAlsa_open: Could not open capture device 'default': No such file or directory
AL lib: (WW) alcSetError: Error generated on device (nil), code 0xa004
Telegram: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :0.

I've got no idea where the error came from, i tried installing the latest version of the app but i still get the same error. As i said, it was working fine before. What might be the problem? I urgently need to use telegram

linux

Source

alvinmurimi

Most helpful comment

Something is definitely wrong with Xorg.

Everything is wrong with Kali. Kali is the worst distribution ever. Every application on it (even X11 and DE) works under root account with unlimited access rights.

Kali should never be used outside of the virtual machine.

xvitaly on 25 Feb 2018

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Use Webogram if you need TG urgently.
Something is likely broken in OS, try using other Qt apps, try rebooting if you haven't yet, try using a normal OS or at least make a user for yourself and don't do everything as root.

stek29 on 22 Feb 2018

Ok. Thanks @stek29 for the reply.
When i switch to another user and start telegram, i get this error

QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display 
./Telegram[0x8e234d]
./Telegram[0x8e292c]
./Telegram(_ZN15google_breakpad16ExceptionHandler12GenerateDumpEPNS0_12CrashContextE+0x3d1)[0x111c611]
./Telegram(_ZN15google_breakpad16ExceptionHandler13SignalHandlerEiP9siginfo_tPv+0xb0)[0x111c940]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x123b0)[0x7f300a53e3b0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x110)[0x7f3009c92a70]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x17a)[0x7f3009c9419a]
./Telegram[0x1dffb61]
./Telegram[0x151f879]
./Telegram(_ZN15QXcbIntegrationC1ERK11QStringListRiPPc+0x2da)[0x14f5afa]
./Telegram[0x14f47fb]
./Telegram[0x1cd02ad]
./Telegram[0x1a01a5d]
./Telegram[0x1a02645]
./Telegram[0x1fc4715]
./Telegram[0x1a039cc]
./Telegram[0x16e4a19]
./Telegram(_ZN11ApplicationC2EN3gsl8not_nullIPN4Core8LauncherEEERiPPc+0x3a)[0xf85b0a]
./Telegram(_ZN4Core8Launcher18executeApplicationEv+0x31)[0x8df841]
./Telegram(_ZN4Core8Launcher4execEv+0x44)[0x8df8d4]
./Telegram(main+0x25)[0x7bc1d5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1)[0x7f3009c7f561]
./Telegram[0x7d227c]
Aborted

Am not sure what the course it. But in the mean time, lemme try out Webogram

alvinmurimi on 22 Feb 2018

Something is definitely wrong with Xorg.

stek29 on 24 Feb 2018

Something is definitely wrong with Xorg.

Everything is wrong with Kali. Kali is the worst distribution ever. Every application on it (even X11 and DE) works under root account with unlimited access rights.

Kali should never be used outside of the virtual machine.

xvitaly on 25 Feb 2018

👍5

WTF are you using Kali for messaging?