Domino on AIX may fail to start due to errors concerning the DISPLAY environment
Starting IBM® Domino® on AIX® 7.1 may fail with errors concerning the DISPLAY environment.
- Problem
- A Domino server
on AIX 7.1 can fail to start
due to DISPLAY errors such as these:
: Xlib: connection to <hostname> refused by the server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server Please edit your shell's DISPLAY environment variable to reflect an unlocked terminal. :
- Solution
- Switch to the Domino user
account and set the DISPLAY environment variable to your local screen
on the console by completing these steps:
- Start a terminal session.
- Log on as root user by entering this command:
# su -
- Add the Domino user's
account to the server's access control list by entering this command:
xhost +local user_name
For example, if the user name is "notes" enter
xhost +local notes
- Switch to the Domino user
account by entering this command:
su - Domino_user
- Set the DISPLAY environment variable to your local screen on the
console by entering this command:
export DISPLAY=Domino_server_hostname:0
- Restart the Domino server
with the notes user account by completing these steps:
- Change to the data directory by entering this command:
cd /local/notesdata
- Start the Domino server
by entering this command:
/opt/ibm/domino/bin/server
- Change to the data directory by entering this command: