Re: ORA-06413 when calling from a Windows service

frsaa_at_wmdata.com (Fredric Sanabria) wrote in message news:<f76f686c.0401270310.194d5482_at_posting.google.com>...
> This is not a question but a warning.
>
> Scenario:
> A Windows Service call a method in an assembly which connects to
> Oracle db.
>
> Problem 1:
> When filename of service executable contains an extra dot ORA-06413 is
> thrown. The file was called Project.UpdateService.exe
> When I renamed it to ProjectUpdateService.exe no exeception i thrown.
>
> Problem 2:
> On my development server the exception is still thrown when executable
> is in folder with "illegal" path: "E:\My Documents\My
> Webs\Project(port 81)\bin". I don't know if it is the blank space or
> the parentheses that causes the exception, but I guess the latter.
> When I place the executable in "E:\Services", no exception is thrown.
>
> Odd:
> The assembly which connects to Oracle db is named Project.Facade.dll.
> The second dot in this filename does not cause an exception. The
> assembly is connecting fine when called by a Windows form or
> aspnet_wp.exe or renamed service-exe. And it's located in the folder
> with the "illegal" path mentioned above on my development server.
> I have no idea why the ORA-06413 exception is thrown only when called
> from the Service. I identified two main differences:
> 1. The service is run under a local system account
> 2. The dll is a strongly namned assembly while the service dll is not.

Use filenames that work in *nix.
The software is developed in *nix and ported to win32. Eventually. Pretty simple way to look at it, isn't it?

Pd Received on Wed Jan 28 2004 - 00:45:02 CST