Hi,

I need to run the installer wizard.

[oracle@.... ~]$ xclock
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I am able to run the wizard after executing the following steps but every time I am executing these steps when ever I reboot the machine.

$ls -l .Xauthority
-rw-----+ 1 cdhar dba 642 Oct 10 22:30 .Xauthority

$ chmod 644 .Xauthority

$ls -l .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--+ 1 cdhar dba 642 Oct 10 22:35 .Xauthority

$ sudo su - oracle

[oracle@....]$export XAUTHORITY=/home/cdhar/.Xauthority

Could you please provide me the permanent solution for this to execute the xclock for required user.

thanks in advance.
cdhar

As far as I understood, you need xlock to show all the time for a particular user.. right?
Then you can put the xclock command in user's shell initialization file i.e. in .bashrc or in .cshrc or .tcshrc. Add following 2 lines in it -

setenv DISPLAY <display-variable-value>
xclock

If it's killing the xclock command, then there's possibility that you've not added user's system in safe hosts using xhost command as:
xhost +<user's-machine-hostname>

So try it, if it can help you.

I mean I do not want to do the same exercise every time.

This is what my issue to run my installer

[oracle@...]$./runIntaller
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors
>>> Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set. Failed <<<<


So if I execute the steps which I specified in my previous reply then I am able to run the installer. xclock command is for just testing.

Please suggest

First check whether display variable is set properly or not using cmd:

printenv | grep -i display
Or find it using:
echo $DISPLAY
For local host it's value should be set as "hostname:0.0", so if it's not set properly, set using:
setenv DISPLAY hostname:0.0
Then invoke your installer again. Let me know the result.

thanks for the reply.

this is the vm box which I am accessing.

[testora@...... bin]$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
[testora@...... bin]$ xclock
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
[testora@...... bin]$export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
[testora@...... bin]$ xclock
Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0

As I already specified I am able run the installer if I export the XAUTHORITY to the user. but this is the exercise which i have to do repeatedly if I reboot the machine. So want to have some permanent solution.
So I start the machine and go to the installation user and run the installer it should show the installation wizard. this is my requirement.
Please provide inputs.