Monday, October 30, 2023

Start GUI application from Windows on remote Linux server with Xming

  1. Start Xming.
  2. Set "Enable X11 forwarding" in Putty configuration (Connection -> SSH -> X11).
  3. Login to remote Linux server with SSH via Putty.
  4. Start GUI application with logged user credentials.
  5. If you need to start GUI application with root credentials:
    • run "sudo su -"
    • run commands:
      $ chmod a+r /home/<user_login>/.Xauthority
      $ export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
      $ export XAUTHORITY=/home/<user_login>/.Xauthority

Monday, February 6, 2023

Update of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment (VMware) finished with Java error "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError"

 If update of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment (VMware) finished with Java error "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError" and you see errors like this:

JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Heap dump using '/tmp/install.dir.1556855/heapdump.20230206.143627.1556855.0011.phd' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Heap dump written to /tmp/install.dir.1556855/heapdump.20230206.143627.1556855.0011.phd
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Java dump using '/tmp/install.dir.1556855/javacore.20230206.143627.1556855.0012.txt' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Java dump written to /tmp/install.dir.1556855/javacore.20230206.143627.1556855.0012.txt
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using '/tmp/install.dir.1556855/Snap.20230206.143627.1556855.0013.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to /tmp/install.dir.1556855/Snap.20230206.143627.1556855.0013.trc
JVMDUMP013I Processed dump event "systhrow", detail "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError".

Try to start install process with the option "-jvmxmx 12g":

./installer-Linux.bin -jvmxmx 12g