Re: applying patchset 3501955 - patch set 4 version 9.2.0.5.0

john.harkin_at_singularity.co.uk (John Harkin) wrote in message news:<7194e0fb.0406090231.7e90d60e_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I tried this but no matter what i put in for name ( path is pointing
> at my oracle home dir ) the oui says it already exists?
> Any ideas - as you can guess i'm no Oracle expert.
>
> Regards
>

John,

At this point, I'd have to recommend for you to wipe it clean and start over.
If you have access to metalink, there are several docs there that cover cleanly removing all oracle software prior to an installation (Note:124506.1).

Its an excellent practice to export your registry with regedit.exe prior to making changes to the operating system, and especially important before performing surgery on the registry directly.

Use oui to remove the software.
uninstall oui with "Programs: Add/remove software". delete the folder c:\program files\oracle delete the folder c:\oracle\ora92 (may vary in your environment) delete the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE

empty the recycle bin.
reboot.

you may encounter issues with files being locked, such as the ociw32.dll in c:\oracle\ora92\bin. the MS DTC service likes to put a handle on that. Stop that service if its not being used for other programs. Backup software tends to like to load oracle dlls also, so you may need to stop such services in order to finish purging files.

If you hit other file lock issues, grab a copy of the process viewer from SysInternals. You'll be able to search (in a gui app) for the process that has the handle on the file of interest (and kill the process).

hth.

Pd Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 11:01:57 CDT