Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Domino 8 Linux issues - resolved

I had a couple of issues setting up the Domino 8 beta server on Linux.

Firstly – when installing the server, do not select to create the symbolic link – softlink if you are installing into the default locations.

Also I had the usual problem where xwindows could not display the setup program. The error was

“Please edit your shell's DISPLAY environment variable to
reflect an unlocked terminal that you would like to launch
the Domino Setup Program”
The fix was to su to root and run the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost this sets security to let the machine export the display on it's own screen
then as the “notes” user run...
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

Once this is done cd to the /local/notesdata directory and run /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server to start the setup program.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please provide more exact details about each bash line you entered as which user...

jwylie said...

/usr/X11R6/bin/xhost was entered as root, all other commands were as the notes user

Anonymous said...

This is nothing to do with Xhost setting or export display.
Instead make sure have right package installed in ur Linux.
i had same problem and i installed
glibc-2.3.31.2
libgcc-4.1.0-28.4
libstdc++-4.1.0-28.4
there's whole bunch of package which is needed for JVM to show you the GUI installation
check with IBM - Linux system requirement for Domino server.
cheers.
PS: dont forge to reboot once you installed these packages.