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Failure during Windchill Loader step of PSI for Linux in Windchill PDMlink

Modified: 07-Feb-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.0
  • RHEL (Linux)

Description

  • Windchill shell can't start with the below error
  • Windchill_loader.log shows below error:
"java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "xterm": error=2, No such file or directory"
  • Failure of the Windchill Loader step during installation via PTC Solution Installer(PSI) (<PSI>/installer/logs/PTCSOLNINSTALLER_PtcInstall.log)
FATAL  date/time - Windchill loader exited with error status = 1 
DEBUG  date/time - Installation is Aborting.  The installation cannot continue.
FATAL  date/time - Aborting installation. 
FATAL  date/time - Installation is Aborting.  The installation cannot continue.
FATAL  date/time - Windchill Loader failed. 
FATAL  date/time - aborting: original exit_code = 2 
FATAL  date/time - aborting: normalized exit_code = 2 
  • Error reported in <Windchill>/installer/logs/<date-timestamp>_WindchillLoader_error.log
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "xterm": error=2, No such file or directory
    at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
    at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
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