Better yet, why not just login to the GUI as user "oracle" instead of logging in as "root" and messing with the X security? There's no need to have a root GUI login -- it only needs command line access to complete the install. Rich > On 8/20/07, Yongping Yao <yaoyongping@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Yao. Looks like you missed the export DISPLAY command.... > >> [root@ern pam.d]# xhost + >> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host >> [root@ern pam.d]# xhost >> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host >> INET:ern >> SI:localuser:root >> [root@ern pam.d]# su - oracle > > [oracle@em ~]$ export DISPLAY=":0.0" > >> [oracle@ern ~]$ xclock >> Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0 >> [oracle@ern ~]$ >> >> And after restarting the machine, it didn't work either. >> I stopped SELinux through GUI tools. Can anyone help me out? >> Thanks in advance. > > And yes, you need to do all of the above from the GUI mode. > > Regards, > NMK. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l