Re: upgrade client on XP, how should the registry look?

From: shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:22:08 +0100
Message-ID: <47a88d33$0$85795$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

"Ben" <benalvey_at_yahoo.com> schreef in bericht news:954aeccc-f179-45a0-9532-4d3a1b5c82e5_at_m34g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... On Feb 5, 10:26 am, "shakespeare" <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> "Ben" <benal..._at_yahoo.com> schreef in
> berichtnews:522c29a5-7498-4480-9f74-6c67022365de_at_d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 5, 9:23 am, "shakespeare" <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> > "Ben" <benal..._at_yahoo.com> schreef in
> > berichtnews:7505c5e8-6f63-4989-a634-0682b0c034c8_at_f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
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> > > We recently upgraded to 10.2.0.2 from 9.2.0.5 and with the client
> > > upgrades we uninstalled 9.2 first and then installed & patched
> > > 10.2.0.2.
> > > We've had some random problems on an application server and with that
> > > I decided to check the registry for oracle information. I found that
> > > under local_machine->software->oracle the keys all have the old 9.2
> > > information. There is then a sub folder local_machine->software-
> > >>oracle->KEY_OraClient10g_1 with all the 10g information. All the
> > > environment variables ORACLE_HOME, TNS_ADMIN, PATH have the 10g info.
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> > > Is it supposed to be required to manually remove all the 9i
> > > information from the registry?
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> > Is this the client registry or the server registry?
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> > Shakespeare
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> client.
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> our database is on a unix server. most of our clients are windows XP
> machines.
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> I don't see what an oracle client has to do with application server. Where
> is it? Is it a seperate server? The only connection to the DB will be done
> by the application server, so your client config should not be the issue
> here.
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> But on the client, after de-installing the 9 version, all entries should
> have been removed from the registry, which obviously didn't happen... I
> don't think removing them would hurt. The 10g registry entries are in the
> right place, it's normal they are placed there. Actually, you can remove
> all
> entries at the higher level, EXCEPT the inst_loc entry, which points to
> your
> inventory (if it's there).
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sorry for confusion, I don't mean Oracle Application Server. I was just talking about a random server that runs a vendor application that utilizes an oracle database.


Ok, clear....

Shakespeare Received on Tue Feb 05 2008 - 10:22:08 CST

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