Re: Problem applying 9.2.0.4 patch (Windows 32 bit) on Win XP Pro

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:38:08 +0100, Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote:

>Hmmm - recall having been there once - reboot (hey - this IS windows)
>and logging on locally (instead of using a network account) helped, iirc.
>You are not required to stop all these services... It's an error reading
>the state of the machine.

 Yep, I agree with that. Head over to http://www.sysinternals.com/ , and download the freeware Process Explorer. It's got a DLL search that you can use to track down anything that has Oracle DLLs loaded.

 What I've seen a few times is several 'COM Surrogate' processes which each have loads of DLLs loaded - apparently on behalf of other processes, even after they've stopped. As it happened on a test machine, killing those surrogate processes off released the DLLs and the patch continued. This probably has the potential for unpleasant side-effects if it zaps anything that was actually in use by another process.

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