ROOT Browser can't be used

Newbie
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ROOT experts,

I am trying to display data in ROOT, but when i try to use new TBrowser I get the message: “The ROOT browser cannot run in batch mode” although I at no point attempt to use batch mode. I am aware of the posts already discussing this issue, but the advice given did not fix it. Following the last recommendations using the --web command always results in “–web is disabled for security reasons” how do I enable it? Or is there a better way to address this problem? I am working on windows 10 with Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Welcome to the ROOT forum !

How did you start ROOT ?
Are you using it remotely via ssh ?

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I don’t think so, I followed the install guide by physics matters for WSL and only need to source to access root.

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Can you copy/paste here what you get in the terminal window from the point where you entered the root command ?

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Of course!

$ root -l data_01.root
root [0]
Attaching file data_01.root as _file0…
(TFile *) 0x7ffff122d930
root [1] new TBrowser
Warning in <TBrowser::TBrowser >: The ROOT browser cannot run in batch mode
(TBrowser *) 0x7ffff185b410

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Unless you have gROOT->SetBatch(); in your rootlogon.C or you connect to your machine using shh without the options -X -Y , I do not see any thing wrong…

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I found ROOT.gROOT.SetBatch(True) in rootlogon.C in the tutorials folder of ROOT-6.30.04. Furthermore echo $SSH_CONNECTION does not return an anwser.

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That’s why you are in batch mode. Remove this line.

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I’m sorry I made a mistake it was a .rootlogon file. Removing the line did not fix it.

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Can you try adding the option -n when you start root ?

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Of course!

It unfortunately still looks the same.

$root -n -l data_01.root
root [0]
Attaching file data_01.root as _file0…
(TFile *) 0x7ffff3d0f7e0
root [1] new TBrowser
Warning in <TBrowser::TBrowser >: The ROOT browser cannot run in batch mode
(TBrowser *) 0x7ffff428e450

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Did you look at ROOT on Windows 11 WSL2 / WSLg?

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I tried adding the lines to .bashrc and changed the XLaunch settings to Disable server access control, but it did not fix the issue.

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There are several posts on the forum about WSL/WSL2. Most of the time it is not related to ROOT, but only to the system configuration. E.g. just try to open a Web browser or any other GUI application. If it works, then the problem is in ROOT, otherwise this is an issue with your set-up

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I tried to install and run chrome over Ubuntu, since sudo snap install firefox is not supported on the subsystem for Linux and got this error: $google-chrome
[0325/163021.680361:ERROR:exception_handler_server.cc(362)] getsockopt: Invalid argument (22)
[0325/163021.680781:ERROR:socket.cc(153)] unhandled cmsg -1431655766, -1431655766
[0325/163021.681775:ERROR:exception_handler_server.cc(362)] getsockopt: Invalid argument (22)
[2928:2928:0325/163021.681907:ERROR:socket.cc(153)] unhandled cmsg -1431655766, -1431655766
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
I am unsure however if this is due to an oversight on my end or an issue in the set-up…

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Can you simply try Xeyes?

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Yes, Xeyes works for me!

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OK, so TBrowser should work as well…

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It in fact does work now. I can’t explain why, all I did was reverse the changes made in the post you linked above so Xeyes could start, but that was checking a setting that wasn’t active before and adding lines, which I now removed again…

Anyways I’m glad it works now, thanks for the help!

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OK, glad to see you fixed the issue!