Re: oracle installer failure

fayoubi_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I have installe Enter Linux from Oracle on my machine.
> I have downloaded the zip file and put it in /freeware/
>
> Now installing 10g 10.2.0.1 throws errors:
> Please let me know if I m doing something I shouldn't be
>
> Thanks
>
> [oracle_at_fado tmp]$ ls -lrt /freeware/database/
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle dba 4096 Jul 2 2005 doc
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 1327 Jul 2 2005 runInstaller
> drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 4096 Jul 2 2005 response
> drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle dba 4096 Jul 2 2005 install
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 5213 Jul 2 2005 welcome.html
> drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle dba 4096 Jul 2 2005 stage
> [oracle_at_fado tmp]$ DISPLAY=localhost:1.1 ; export DISPLAY
> [oracle_at_fado tmp]$ echo $DISPLAY
> localhost:1.1
> [oracle_at_fado tmp]$ /freeware/database/runInstaller
> Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
>
> Checking installer requirements...
>
> Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4,
> UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
> Passed
>
>
> All installer requirements met.
>
> Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/
> OraInstall2007-08-23_04-53-14PM. Please wait ...[oracle_at_fado tmp]$
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to
> X11 window server using 'localhost:1.1' as the value of the DISPLAY
> variable.
> at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
> at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
> at
> java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(Unknown
> Source)
> at java.awt.Window.init(Unknown Source)
> at java.awt.Window.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at oracle.ewt.popup.PopupFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.BufferedFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at
> oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.<init>(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:
> 378)
> at
> oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OiocOneClickInstaller.main(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:
> 2091)

You have provided insufficient information from which to help you.

What changes did you make to /etc/sysctl.conf? Did you set up the environment variables? pam.d? limits? Which version of whose Linux?

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