From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon May 23 15:51:37 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4NKpbp4028516 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 15:51:37 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4NKpbNi028511 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 15:51:37 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 049291B0D61; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:48:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09998-07; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:48:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 50BF31B0D3A; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:48:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20050523134031.03b645f0@pop.centrexcc.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:46:50 -0600 To: jkstill@gmail.com From: Wolfgang Breitling Subject: Re: CPU April 2005 patching madness Cc: Oracle-L Freelists In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 20145 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: breitliw@centrexcc.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: breitliw@centrexcc.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 Jared, are you familiar with Mark Russinovich's (http://www.sysinternals.com/) Windows utilities, particularly Process Explorer, Filemon, and Regmon. In your case I would try and monitor oracle during startup with filemon and regmon. Maybe they can show you where Oracle gets the wrong init.ora path from. Or Process explorer after Oracle is started shows some files or dlls open from the wrong home. At 01:32 PM 5/23/2005, Jared Still wrote: >A couple of folks have asked about the ORACLE_HOME environment variable. >When working on Win32 boxes with multiple instances of Oracle I always >set ORACLE_HOME to the correct location for the database in use. Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l