[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing oracle 11g

[Tim Dunphy]

Thanks guys.

Alan's tip ultimately got the gui installer working:

>The simplest workaround is to grant the Oracle user permission before you su to it:
 >      xhost +si:localuser:oracle

Then, after setting the DISPLAY variable that got the ball rolling.

I appreciate the help!

tim
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Jason Matthews <jason at broken.net> wrote:
>
>
> What Alan wrote.
>
> j.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:21 PM
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing oracle 11g
>
> On 05/23/12 03:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>>> I don't want to sound insulting, but is X running?
>>> Are you on console or logged in over ssh? If ssh, is xforwarding enabled?
> If
>>> so, do you have some sort of X client on your side? Do other X clients
> work
>>> (eg. xload)?
>>
>> That's fine. I'm logged in at the console, not ssh'd in and yes x is
>> working fine.
>>
>>
>> I'm running as the oracle user
>>
>> [root at openindiana:/tank/iso] #su - oracle
>>
>>
>> And interesting that xload gives an error when I try to run it as the
>> oracle user.
>>
>>  I've tried setting a few variables for DISPLAY:
>>
>> -bash-4.0$ export DISPLAY=":0.0"
>> -bash-4.0$ xload
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>
>> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
>
> The default X setup, on pretty much every OS made in the past twenty years,
> is
> that only the user who logs into X can open windows on the display.   Some
> Linux
> distros do include a PAM module to forward this authorization on su, but OI
> does
> not.
>
> The simplest workaround is to grant the Oracle user permission before you su
> to
> it:
>        xhost +si:localuser:oracle
>
> A variety of other solutions are possible as well, as a google search for
> terms
> such as "xauthority" and "xauth" will turn up.
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
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