Re: installing 8i on RH Linux 6.2?

aK wrote:
> here is an error I have encountered after ran command ./runInstaller in
> /usr/src/Disk1
>
> [root_at_localhost /root]# su - oracle
> [oracle_at_localhost oracle]$ cd /usr/src/Disk1/
> [oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ ./runInstaller
> [oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
> ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
> refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as
> the value of the DISPLAY variable. at
> sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.<init>(MToolkit.java:63)
> at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:394)
> at
> oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmSplashScreen.getImage(OiifmSplashScreen.ja
> va:67)
> at
> oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmSplashScreen.<init>(OiifmSplashScreen.java
> :45)
> at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:418)
>
> I suspected that maybe glibc (2.1.3-15 was the one I had by default) is not
> compatible; so I downloaded jdk118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 and tar it. on
> /usr/local without uninstalling the previous version. didn't know how or if
> I should've since I am a linux newbie. next step was to make a link as ln -s
> /usr/local/jdk118_v3 /usr/local/java
>
> then ran runinstaller the same error poped up. what did I do wrong? I did
> follow every procedure what this guy said on his web site.
> http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle

Look at the first line : connection to ":0.0: refused by server. Are you running the installer on a remote server ? If so type 'xhost +servername' (servername = the name of the remote server) and it should work.

greetz,

Henk Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 01:35:59 CST