RE: Display Difficulties

This posting is slightly long, so please bear with my while I describe my problem.

Manuela Mueller wrote:

> Hello Robert,
> 1) on server (means where software is installed) put the following in
> .profile:
> DISPLAY = worksstation_name:0.0
> # eg DISPLAY = your_workstation_ip_address:0.0
> # or if you are installing Oracle on the same machine, you can also use
> loopback device:
> DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> # export the freshly defined variable:
> export DISPLAY
>
> 2) On session on your workstation: xhost +server_name
> eg: xhost +server OR xhost +ip_of_server
>
> You achieved with xhost + that all clients have access to the X-Server,
> but you have not set the DISPLAY variable.
>
> Hope that helps, good luck with the install
> Manuela Mueller

The below is my testing of your recommendation:

oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ ./runInstaller oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$
DISPLAY not set. Please set the DISPLAY and try again. : Operation not permitted

oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ echo $DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0.0
oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ ./runInstaller Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...
oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ map failed map failed
<SNIP -- Many iterations of the same message> map failed
java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using '127.0.0.1:0.0' 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.java:67)

        at

oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmSplashScreen.<init>(OiifmSplashScreen.java:45)

        at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:418)

oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ xhost +127.0.0.1

oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ export DISPLAY=tillarium:0.0 oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ echo $DISPLAY tillarium:0.0
oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ ./runInstaller oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...
map failed
<SNIP -- Again>
map failed

oracle_at_tillarium:/usr/src/Disk1$ java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using 'tillarium:0.0' 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.java:67)

        at

oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmSplashScreen.<init>(OiifmSplashScreen.java:45)

        at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:418)

I'm clueless as to what to do now. For some reason no other user on my system is so affected. I can use the account "tilleyrw" to install Oracle with no difficulties, but I am reluctant to do so because of the various file permissions which should belong to the user "oracle".

I hope someone has insight into this situation.

-- 
Information and comments are much appreciated.

Thank you, Robert