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Re: Patch 9.2.0.7.0 for windows xp

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:48:16 +0200
Message-ID: <ddpdrg$jc1$1@news.BelWue.DE>


Connor McDonald wrote:

> LJQ wrote:
> 

>>Over the weekend I tried to install the latest Oracle patch 9.2.0.7.0
>>over 9.2.0.1.0 on a XP box. However, strange thing happened:
>>
>>After executing the setup.exe, Oracle begins it's installation,
>>but shortly after the installation procedure begins, a form poped
>>up with a huge listing of services that need to be shut down in
>>order for the update to continue. There were no errors in this
>>instance,just a page full of service name needed to be shutdown
>>(Includinig Windows client, compute brower, DHCP client, DNS client..
>>but not including the Oracle ones because they have been shutdown
>>before running setup.exe), you are only allow to choose either "retry",
>>"cancel" or "ignore", no luck to proceed
>>
>>Anybody have similar experience?
>>
>>There is a like http://nixforums.org/about56236.html describing the
>>same problem but there is no resolution.
> 
> 
> a) take a note of your current PATH setting
> b) remove all the Oracle ones from the path
> c) set all Oracle services to manual
> d) reboot
> 
> and then patch
> 
> hth
> connor

Hi Connor,

why a) and b) ? In my experience c) and d) where sufficient, but maybe I missed something?

Thanks,
Holger Received on Mon Aug 15 2005 - 01:48:16 CDT

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