VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0

[William Hooper]

Mark A. Nelson  said:
> I am rather new to VNC and I am attemtping to use this amazing tool to
> help me remotely install Oracle 9i on Linux.
> I have VNC server running and am able to connect form a Windows 2000
> Workstation, once there KDE automatically opens up as if I was in front of
> the Database server which is located off site.
> I have the DB server configured and ready to go, when I type
> ./runInstaller it starts then runs then dies with the following error.
>
> Xlib:connection to "1:0" refused by server
> Xlib;Client is not authorized to connect to server.

You have Xauth issues.  One horribly insecure way around it is:

xhost +

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-- 
William Hooper