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> thanks in advance...
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> -Vipul
Hi Vipul,
Perform the following steps connected to the Sun box as the oracle user : 1) Check for any of the Oracle background processes by doing a ps -aef|grep ora_ at the shell prompt. If you see any of these processes, kill them by doing a kill -9 <pid> at the shell prompt. The <pid> is the process ID of eacho of these processes which can be retrieved from the above 'ps' command. 2) You might have to manually remove any shared memory segments and semaphores still hanging out there. To remove shared memory segments owned by oracle: ------------------------------------------------ Do an ipcs -m at the shell prompt to determine the IDs of the shared memory segments owned by oracle. Execute an ipcrm -m <ID> for each of the shared memory segments owned by oracle where <ID> is retrieved as described above using ipcs -m. To remove semaphores owned by oracle: ------------------------------------ Do an ipcs -s at the shell prompt to determine the IDs of the semaphores owned by oracle. Execute an ipcrm -s <ID> for each of the semaphores owned by oracle where <ID> is retrieved as described above using ipcs -s . 3) Now remove any sgadef.dbf files in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. 4) Also make sure that the listener is down by executing $ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop at the shell prompt. 5) Remove all the oracle binaries.
You are all set to install the new oracle binaries. Let me know if you have any problems.
Anil Sikri
Sr. Oracle DBA