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unable to open display localhost:0.0 in VMware RedHat linux machine

178210Jan 5 2007 — edited Feb 28 2007
I have been trying to Install Oracle 10g RAC in VMware linux virtual machine.

my virtual machines are running properly and I am able to use RSH & SSH.

when I run runInstaller it is not comming up due to DISPLAY environmental variable setup.

I have set the varable as follows
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0; export DISPLAY

then if i execute xhost + it gives the following error
"xhost: unable to open display localhost:0.0"

I have tried with ipaddress instead of localhost. Eventhen it is giving the same error

What is the problem? How I can solve the issue?

Comments

Terry.Liu-Oracle
Hi,
You can try to set as followed:
DISPLAY=.:0.0; export DISPLAY
346818
You need to open another telnet window as root and run: xhost +

This will allow non-root users to execute the x-windows
564339
i had the same issue. running the xhost + as root fixed the issue, but only after i switched to root using 'su -' instead of just 'su' (likely something in the profile scripts that get run when you use the '-' (dash) versus just using 'su'.
after running the xhost +, i was able to (as oracle) do:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
./runInstaller

And good to go.
495848
If I have to install Oracle from console or VMWare environment I never setup DISPLAY.

just ...
root@server# xhost +
root@server@ su - oracle
oracle@server# ./runInstaller

That's it.
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