Re: 8.1.7.4.12 patch installation

When this has happened to me, I've been able to fire up Explorer and rename the "locked" DLL file. Then press RETRY on the installation routine. Then repeat ad nauseum for each and every file. Ugly, but it works. On rare occasions, Windows won't let me even rename the file though.

HTH,
Brian

Chuck wrote:
>
> Looking for recommendations to make applying this patch a little better.
> This is perhaps the UGLIEST Oracle patch I've ever seen. There are
> between 75 and 100 files that need to be manually copied from the patch
> directory to the %ORACLE_HOME% subdirectories. I have numerous servers
> running 8.1.7.4 that need to be patched and each time I do it I run into
> at least 10 files that can't be replaced even though all Oracle services
> are shut down. The error message I get states essentially that those
> files (mostly DLLs) are still in use. There are no applications on these
> servers. They're purely used as database servers. What suggestions do you
> have to avoid these errors?
>
> I have already tried disabling all Oracle services and rebooting the
> server. This didn't help at all.
>
> Upgrading to 9i is not an option. The applications are not certified to
> run against a 9i database
> --
> Chuck
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