RE: Active files message when applying a patch bundle on Windows

Paul just triggered a memory. We've had problems with the Windows Management Instrumentation service... That one is a pain because Windows will restart it. Disable it, stop it, that may be your culprit. You can re-enable afterwards, of course.

And I second Paul's thought that you ought to be able to get process explorer approved - I'd hate to have to work on Windows without it.

Stephan Uzzell

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Drake Sent: Monday, 22 April, 2013 15:48
To: Schauss, Peter
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Active files message when applying a patch bundle on Windows

Peter,
Microsoft bought out SysInternals a few years ago. Might you just get that tool approved?
Perhaps you could rename it to "fuser" to help to get it through? (joke)

If not, here is a list of offending processes that you could kill off (and restart later):

"Distributed Transaction Coordinator"
Anything SNMP
Any backup software service
VMTools (VMware tools software)
OracleMTSRecovery process
Any Oracle VSS service

hth.

Paul

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Schauss, Peter (ESS) <peter.schauss_at_ngc.com
> wrote:

> Unfortunately, in our environment, I am not allowed to install
> unapproved software.
>
> When I encountered this problem on an AIX server, I worked around it
> by renaming the offending library files and the patch process simply
> installed new ones, which was what it wanted to do anyway. Will that work on Windows?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Schauss
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uzzell, Stephan [mailto:SUzzell_at_MICROS.COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:14 PM
> To: Schauss, Peter (ESS); oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Cc: Uzzell, Stephan
> Subject: EXT :RE: Active files message when applying a patch bundle on
> Windows
>
> You can use process explorer, search for the dlls that way -
> http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe
>
> Good luck, and be careful! :-)
>
> Stephan Uzzell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
> On Behalf Of Schauss, Peter (ESS)
> Sent: Monday, 22 April, 2013 14:02
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Active files message when applying a patch bundle on Windows
>
> I have a windows server (32 bit) which I am attempting to upgrade from
> 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.3. For this particular application we are running
> test and production instances on the same server (not my choice), so I
> have to proceed with a bit of caution. I installed 11.2.0.3 in a
> separate ORACLE_HOME. Now I am trying to apply Patch Bundle 18 before
> I upgrade the test instance. At this point I have not migrated any of
> the databases to the new version and we are still using the 11.1.0.7 listener.
>
> When I run opatch I get:
>
>
> Following files are active :
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oracommon11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oraclient11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\orageneric11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\orapls11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oran11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oraxml11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oci.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\orannzsbb11.dll
> d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\oraasmclnt11.dll
>
> How can I tell what process is using these DLLs or is opatch confusing
> the
> 11.2.0 versions of these libraries with the 11.1.0 versions?
>
> Tasklist /m will only accept the file name, not the full path name.
>
> Does this mean that I have to shut down the production instances
> before I can apply a patch to the new ORACLE_HOME?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Schauss
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