Archive for June, 2016
Can’t Display 256 Colors
If you’re reading this post, you most likely are trying to run the Oracle Database 11g or 12c runInstaller program, and it’s failing a critical dependency check and displaying an error like the one below. If so, choose n because if you choose y it won’t launch the Oracle Installer.
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 30824 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 3967 MB Passed
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 <<<<
Some requirement checks failed. You must fulfill these requirements before
continuing with the installation,
Continue? (y/n) [n] n |
The first thing to check is whether you’ve the $TERM environment variable. It’ll be set in your env list but may not be set in your .bashrc file. You can see whether it’s set by running the following command:
echo $TERM |
It should return a value, like this:
xterm-256color |
If you didn’t get that value, use the env command to lookup the $TERM. The correct value can be found by running the env command like this:
env | grep -i term |
Add $TERM environment variable to your .bashrc file and source it after the change or reboot the user’s session:
export TERM=xterm-256color |
If it still doesn’t work, some posts ask you to run xclock but you don’t generally install the xhost clients. Those articles assumes you’ve installed the xorg-x11-apps package library. That’s more or less a choice you made when installing the Linux OS. You can check for the presence of the library with the following command as the root user:
rpm -qa xorg-x11-apps |
If the command fails to return a result from the search of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) libraries, you haven’t installed it. You can install it as the root superuser with this syntax:
yum install -y xorg-x11-apps |
It should display the following result when successful:
Loaded plugins: langpacks Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package xorg-x11-apps.x86_64 0:7.7-6.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libXaw.so.7()(64bit) for package: xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el7.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package libXaw.x86_64 0:1.0.12-5.el7 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================= Installing: xorg-x11-apps x86_64 7.7-6.el7 ol7_latest 304 k Installing for dependencies: libXaw x86_64 1.0.12-5.el7 ol7_latest 190 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================= Install 1 Package (+1 Dependent package) Total download size: 494 k Installed size: 1.2 M Downloading packages: (1/2): libXaw-1.0.12-5.el7.x86_64.rpm | 190 kB 00:00:00 (2/2): xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el7.x86_64.rpm | 304 kB 00:00:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 690 kB/s | 494 kB 00:00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Installing : libXaw-1.0.12-5.el7.x86_64 1/2 Installing : xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el7.x86_64 2/2 Verifying : libXaw-1.0.12-5.el7.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el7.x86_64 2/2 Installed: xorg-x11-apps.x86_64 0:7.7-6.el7 Dependency Installed: libXaw.x86_64 0:1.0.12-5.el7 Complete! |
After installing the xorg-x11-apps library packages, you can retry running the Oracle installer. You should now see the following successful message set:
Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 30809 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 3967 MB Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2016-06-01_01-50-54AM. Please wait ... |
As always, I hope this helps my students and anybody looking for a solution to a less than explicit error message.
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