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"Can'T Connect To X11 Window Server" During Installation Of RDBMS Server Or Execution Of DBUA (Doc ID 1274561.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 04, 2013

Applies to:

Oracle Universal Installer - Version 11.1.0.6 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 11.1 to 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Xclock works fine but when installing 11.1.0.6 Oracle RDBMS Server on Oracle Solaris on Sparc (64 bit) runInstaller gives the following error :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using '<host name >:0.0'as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.access$000(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:53)

 

Similar symptom can also be seen with DBUA on other unix platforms (such as Linux) :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using '<host name >:0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:134)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)

 

Cause

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