Re: Installation Problem Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:08:46 +0100
Message-ID: <cof00l$5d4$2@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Randy Harris wrote:
> "Frank van Bortel" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:coco6u$rcf$1_at_news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
>

>>Fred*** wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to install 9iR2 on a Redhat AS3 machine and I'm getting an

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> error
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>>>when running 'runInstaller'.  I am doing this from an X session

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> physically
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>>>on the server; not remote.
>>>
>>>As 'oracle' user, I get the following error:
>>>
>>>[oracle_at_mymachineDisk1]$ ./runInstaller
>>>[oracle_at_mymachineDisk1]$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
>>>/tmp/OraInstall2004-11-28_02-58-23AM/jre/bin/java. Please wait...
>>>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>>>Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>>Basic, very basic... xhost +

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>
> This is usually because you did an 'su' to oracle. Log out and log back in
> as oracle.
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>

Sorry - I'm lost here, especially as xhost + needs to be performed by root, not oracle.

What would logging off, and logging on as oracle change to prevent the error?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 05:08:46 CST