Re: Upgrade Question

You generally get this error if the conents of the file /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc points to the wrong OraInventory directory.

We just went to 8.1.7.4 to resolve some issues with .2. So far, so good.

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
rthomas_at_hypercom.com
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                      hamid.alavi_at_quova                                                                                                   
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Hi List,

Friday afternoon I try to upgrade database(8.1.7.0 on sun solaris) to 8.1.7.4 but after few minutes I got the following message:
"There are no Patches need to be applied from the patch set oracle 8i patch
set 8.1.7.4.0" and doesn't go thru at all, My question is for installing any patch do I have to install the previous patch first or what? Is there any Prepatch to Install for any patching or NOT? We have two option for upgrading 8.1.7.2 OR 8.1.7.4, Which one is better & safer??
If I want to go for Patch 4,is there any comments or recommendation Really appreciate

Hamid Alavi
Office 818 737-0526
Cell 818 402-1987

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