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 <ja...@broken.net> wrote: > > > What Alan wrote. > > j. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@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@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.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
