wkhtmltopdf exited with non-zero code {0} django html to pdf on server

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Gaurav Wagh

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Aug 20, 2015, 1:39:40 AM8/20/15
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I am converting html to pdf using wkhtmltopdf.
But i am getting an error 

    raise IOError("wkhtmltopdf exited with non-zero code {0}. error:\n{1}".format(exit_code, stderr.decode("utf-8")))
    IOError: wkhtmltopdf exited with non-zero code 1. error:
    xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

my code is 

        f = open('cover_page.html', 'w')
        cap_type = indi_user.cap_type
        message = """<html>
        <head></head>
        <body><h1 style="font-size:150px;margin-top: 450px;">%s</h1></body>
        </html>""" % (cap_type.encode('utf-8').strip())
        f.write(message)
        f.close()
        pdfkit.from_url('cover_page.html', 'cover_page.pdf')
        os.remove("cover_page.html")
        final_pdf_list.insert(0, 'cover_page.pdf')
        to_be_removed.append("cover_page.pdf")
        pypdftk.concat(final_pdf_list, str(destination))

i dont know what wrong i am doing there.

i tried everything but stuck on the same error.

please help me out

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