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No GUI connected in installation on Solaris 10

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Hi all,

We are experiencing problems installing WebAS 6.40 on Solaris 10. When we execute sapinst the following is displayed: 'guiengine: no GUI connected; waiting for a connection on host XXX, port 21212 to continue with the installation '

We have set the hostname and IP-address in /etc/hosts, and set DISPLAY variable to XXX:0

Do you have any suggestions how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

Br,

Kenneth

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Former Member
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Hi Kenneth,

I faced the exact same problem few days ago, but i was installing on windows. The logic is the same.

This is the information i got from my installation guide.

"During the installation, the default ports 21200 and 21212 are used for communication between

SAPinst, GUI server, and SAPinst GUI. SAPinst uses port 21200 to communicate with the GUI server.

The GUI server uses port 21212 to communicate with SAPinst GUI. You get an error message if one

of these ports is already in use by another service.

In this case, open a command prompt and change to the required directory as follows:

<DVD drive>:\IM_WINDOWS_<platform>.

Enter the following command in a single line:

sapinst.exe SAPINST_DIALOG_PORT=<free_port_number_sapinst_gui_to_gui_server>

GUISERVER_DIALOG_PORT=<free_port_number_gui_server_to_sapinst_gui>"

There are two things to note here.

1) Your Java_Home environment variable is set and not pointing out to bin folder.

2) Make sure that the ports are free and not in use.

For me, i did the first option and retried and went through.

Please try and let us know if it worked for you.

Regards,

Bharat

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Hello, I have the same problem with Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 and i don't understand what is the problem; DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly and the message appears again.

Thanks in advance for the replies.

Raúl.

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Hi,

If you're experiencing a no GUI connected problem check the following:

edit the /etc/hosts file and make sure that entried pertaining to your nic loopback address are in the file

eg: 127.0.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.0.100 "hostname" "hostaname+domain" "loghost"

eg: 192.168.0.100 sol9 sol9.nixcraft.com loghost

Check with the ping command if the loopback address and the name of your host are pingable.

If not you have to configer your nic properly for the sapinst and GUI connection to work

http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vivek/blogger/2005/01/solaris-how-to-configure-lan-card-nic.html

Hope this Helps!

Regards,

Damien Rodriguez

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Hi,

Execute 'xhost +' after you set the DISPLAY env var,then try sapinst again.

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I am also facing the same issue..

Please let me know how you solved the issue

Former Member
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Hi Kenneth,

You have to set the env variables for your JAVA_HOME=/

and execute startInstGui.sh from the installation directory.

Are you installing Netweaver on Solaris 10 x86 64 or 32 bit?

Thanks,

Damien Rodriguez