Re: Win XP / 9203 patch - solved

Connor McDonald wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Anyone been through the following exercise or similar (this is all just
> on a home PC)
>
> a) Installed Win2K
> b) Installed 9201 fine
> c) Patched to 9202 fine
>
> (a), (b), (c) naturally done some time ago
>
> (d) Upgrade to WinXP
> (e) Patching to 9203
>
> Its (e) where the process has stumbled. In the standard check where
> Oracle looks to see if you've got any services running that need to be
> shut before applying the patch, its pops up with a list of just about
> every started service on the box (Server, RPC, DNS, DHCP, etc, etc,
> etc).
>
> I can hit 'cancel' and just keep on going, but has anyone else had this
> behaviour?
>
> Cheers
> Connor
>
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> Connor McDonald
> http://www.oracledba.co.uk
>
> "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue"

Problem solved. Apparently under XP, when the installer pops up and lists every started service as a problem, what it really means is that *one* of them is a problem. Dunno which one it was, but took the Oracle stuff out of the path, stopped as many as I could, and voila!

Cheers
Connor

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Connor McDonald
http://www.oracledba.co.uk

"Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue"