Re: 8.1.7.4 patch install issue

From: Dave Hau <davehau-no-spam-123_at_no-spam.netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:54:03 -0700
Message-ID: <b9mfmi$9gn$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>

There's a free tool called Process Explorer you can use to find out which process is holding onto which DLL:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

Cheers,
Dave

"Glen A Stromquist" <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:D6yva.3546$Xr6.517652_at_news1.telusplanet.net...
> After quite a few relatively painless installs of this patch, today I
> ran in to an issue on the last server to get it. When the patch install
> was at 92%, it errored out saying that an application was still using a
> file oracle needed to replace. I triple checked everything, all services
> were shutdown and I also shutdown MS distributed transaction
> coordinator, as it gave me problems before, (but always later in the
> install) No other services that would have been using oracle were running.
>
> No matter what I could not get the installer to get past this error,
> rather than skip that component(LDAP) and continue, I aborted the
> install to try again when I'm back on site. (running it via vnc via
> citrix over a 28.8 connection is NOT my idea of a sunday morning well
> spent, it's mothers day my wifes patience is getting shorter than mine :-)
>
> anyone else run in to this when installing the 8.1.7.4 patchset?
>
> TIA
>
Received on Sun May 11 2003 - 16:54:03 CDT