Re: Sybrand: 8.1.5-->8.1.6 upgrade hangs. Clues?

Did you stop the listener before you started the upgrade? I'm asking because you didn't tell us how you determined what the only running Oracle processes were?

Big Al

eskimo1234_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi Sybrand (and any other Oracle gurus who are kind enough to
> read this).
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> I've got Oracle8i 8.1.5 running on HP-UX 11.0. I need to
> upgrade to 8.1.6. So I shut down all oracle processes
> (ie, the DBMS and Net8), and then I fired up 8.1.6's
> "runInstaller", and selected the checkbox beside:
>
> _Upgrade or Migrate Existing Database
>
> It put up a status bar, and quickly zoomed to 95%. Cool!
> But then it stopped. Uncool.
> It's been sitting there for over an hour now.
>
> Above the status bar, it says:
>
> "Processing Oracle Protocol Support 8..."
>
> The only oracle processes running are:
>
> 1) /nfs/hprcl214/projects9/oracle/8.1.6/install/../stage/Compon
> 2)./runInstaller
>
> where (1) was launched by (2). Neither process is accumulating
> any CPU time; it looks like it's blocked, waiting for "something".
>
> Any ideas on how I can get the upgrade to complete?
> Or how I can debug this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eskimo
> eskimo1234_at_hotmail.com
>
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Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 16:56:49 CDT