Re: Perfect Installation but hardly anything works

In article <33si93INNhl3_at_rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, c3055_at_rphc10 (Alexander Dauensteiner) says:
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>We are running Version 7.0.16.4 for Solaris 2.3 on a Sparc 10.
>The installation worked perfectly alright but hardly any applications work.
>The ones which do work are sqldba and sqlplus.
>
>When I invoke other applications from the shell I get various
>error messages or
>no result at all. Here are some examples:
>
>f40desm =>
>FRM-91109: Internal Error -- Application startup failure.
>FRM-10039: Unable to start up the Oracle Forms designer.

You can get this error if your DISPLAY variable is not set, or is set to a device which you do not have permission to display on. (Try starting a xterm to see if you DISPLAY variable is set correctly)

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>oragraph20m => no reaction
>g20runm => no reaction

Possibly, you are displaying on another device ? I.e. the DISPLAY variable is not set correctly.

>
>f40genm =>
>FRM-91500: Unable to start/complete the generation.
>
>rtdemo scott/tiger =>
>rtguide scott/tiger =>
>No such device to application map xterm in terminal resource file oraterm.r.
>
>orasoundm =>
>Error in starting up application context.
>Check your ORACLE_HOME setting.
>
>(but ORACLE_HOME *IS* set)
>
>orarep20m =>
>REP-0006: Warning: Syntax error at line 2 in user preference file.
>REP-3300: Fatal error in Toolkit II (UI).
>UI-1: Undefined failure in UI.
>
>browserm =>
>Environment variable ORACLE_HOME undefined or incorrect
>BRW-15004 Internal Error
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>(but ORACLE_HOME *IS* set)
>
>
>and on and on and on....
>
>So how do I user the binaries correctly?
>
>Alex

Regards, Kevin.

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