diff --git a/app-openbis-installer/resource/tarball/run-console.sh b/app-openbis-installer/resource/tarball/run-console.sh
index 5b4f276ac28a37ddf89aa71981fd42cbd182a333..3eeace88997edbaa9464cb21e3177fc4fba4a555 100755
--- a/app-openbis-installer/resource/tarball/run-console.sh
+++ b/app-openbis-installer/resource/tarball/run-console.sh
@@ -84,4 +84,4 @@ else
   readAdminPassword
 fi
 
-java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$BASE/jul.config -DADMIN_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD -DCONSOLE=true -Dmerge.props.to.installation.vars=true -cp $BASE/openBIS-installer.jar com.izforge.izpack.installer.bootstrap.Installer -options-auto $BASE/console.properties
+java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$BASE/jul.config -DADMIN_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD -DCONSOLE=true -Dmerge.props.to.installation.vars=true -cp $BASE/openBIS-installer.jar com.izforge.izpack.installer.bootstrap.Installer -options-auto $BASE/console.properties
diff --git a/server-original-data-store/dist/datastore_server.sh b/server-original-data-store/dist/datastore_server.sh
index 75d2f9ab13244f69f4120fbc0f18d708983a1589..697b97f22c6e2007d55ed732b7f1f1f0e255696a 100755
--- a/server-original-data-store/dist/datastore_server.sh
+++ b/server-original-data-store/dist/datastore_server.sh
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ JAVA_VERSION_OPTS=""
 if [[ "$version" != "1.8" ]]; then
     JAVA_VERSION_OPTS="--add-exports java.xml/jdk.xml.internal=ALL-UNNAMED"
 fi
-COMMON_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTS} ${JAVA_MEM_OPTS} $JAVA_VERSION_OPTS -Dnative.libpath=$LIB_FOLDER/native -classpath $CP ch.systemsx.cisd.openbis.dss.generic.DataStoreServer"
+COMMON_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTS} ${JAVA_MEM_OPTS} $JAVA_VERSION_OPTS -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dnative.libpath=$LIB_FOLDER/native -classpath $CP ch.systemsx.cisd.openbis.dss.generic.DataStoreServer"
 
 
 # ensure that we ignore a possible prefix "--" for any command