Re: Oracle 10g dbconsole on AIX

"Matthias Hoys" <idmwarpzone_NOSPAM__at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:431f4722$0$24902$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be...
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> <madhu.vajrala_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1126118791.570546.229130_at_g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi,
>> I also have similar problems with AIX 5.3. After a little research, I
>> found below
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>> AWT (J2SE v1.3) requires access to an X server to generate images from
>> a "DBCONSOLE" application on UNIX, an X server must be available, and
>> the "location" of the X server must be communicated to AWT.
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>> AWT (J2SE v1.4) removes the X server dependency through a feature known
>> as "headless" Java.
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>> But IBM's implementation of Java, Suport for the "headless" is missing.
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>> I have talked to My SA, and she says, we can use "J2SE" from sun,
>> instead from IBM. But we didn't try that one yet.
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>> Hope this helps !!
>> Madhu
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> Something I found :
> The possibility to use an X Virtual Frame Buffer :
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/aixprggd/aixwnpgd/xvfb.htm
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> Will look into that later this week.
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>
> Matthias
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Update : I installed the X Virtual Frame Buffer software today and everything is working fine now ! Dbconsole runs fine without the need to keep a running X-Windows session. Unfortunately, a system reboot was needed ...

Matthias Hoys Received on Thu Sep 15 2005 - 13:45:38 CDT