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A user has attempted to uninstall Oracle 8 from an XP laptop. The services were running and instead of deleting the databases, he used Uninstaller to uninstall Oracle software first.
There are now Services for the database still running or trying to start up on XP. Datafiles are still in the OS but when I try and delete them I get an error: Oracore8.dll is in use.
How can I clean this laptop up? I want to remove all trace of Oracle 8 and the databases (OS files and XP services etc).
Oracle's solution to this is to put the machine in the crusher and buy a new one :D
According to Metalink, the only way to get rid of all the services is to edit the registry (OUCH!). If you can't get them to stop with the Service applet, this plus a reboot may be the only way.
Can I not stop them from the command line? Using ORADIM or similar?
Something like:
net stop "OracleServiceSID"
net stop "OracleO817TNSListener"
I've managed to stop the services, I want to DELETE them. Usually deleting the DB with the DB Config Assistant does this for me. But the DBCA is not available as Oracle has been uninstalled!
You will have lost oradim, which would normally be the way to delete the SID services. In any case the listener etc have to be deleted from the registry by hand (elegant eh?).
Look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services
Yeah, I feared as much. Thanks.
Here goes then ...
REAL MEN EDIT THE REGISTRY.:cool:
I hope you're not using regedit - REAL men do it directly in binary :DQuote:
Originally posted by JMac
REAL MEN EDIT THE REGISTRY.:cool:
Deleting the Registry entries for the services deletes the services - fine.
But when I come to delete the OS folders with the Oracle files in I still get the 'ORACORE8.dll' file in use error. It lives in the ORA_HOME - bin folder. How can it be in use? How can I delete these files as I want to install 9i to a seperate home and I don't want any of the 8i files left in the OS.
rename the oracle folder, reboot the machine, and delete the folder.
Slimdave, why wouldn't a simple reboot do...? I have come across the same problem JMac is having, and I would use oradim to delete the database, then go and delete all directories that would allow me, then reboot to get the rest and finish by cleaning the registry.
DaPi.....how do you go about fiddling with registry by way of binary, I find that intersting, or were you being fetitious...?
Rick
Nice one, Slim Dave. Worked fine.
So what exactly was going on there? Any idea?
Tried it several times, just wouldn't let me delete the Oracle Home and its subfolders in the OS. Renamed the folder, rebooted and it worked fine. Just wondering what it was that could have been holding onto the .dll as no Oracle services or processes were running as far as I could see.Quote:
Originally posted by Alchemy
Slimdave, why wouldn't a simple reboot do...?
I don't know how much slimdave charges nor how many person-hours this has consumed, but the crusher might be the cost-effective solution!
I confess I can't remember the last time I edited anything in binary. (Thirty years ago we were regularly patching programs on the fly on a PDP-7.) It's a bit like trying to remember the last time you used a telephone with a dial.
"phones with a dial"
They should be making a come back. Fine chunky bakelite things that worked perfectly.
My phone here has memories and programs and only works 50% of the time.
30 second solution, so yes it would be cheaper to crush it ;)Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
I don't know how much slimdave charges nor how many person-hours this has consumed, but the crusher might be the cost-effective solution!
Or the days when you had four buttons on your TV, one for each available channel plus a spare.Quote:
I confess I can't remember the last time I edited anything in binary. (Thirty years ago we were regularly patching programs on the fly on a PDP-7.) It's a bit like trying to remember the last time you used a telephone with a dial.
. . . and ALL THREE were worth watching!Quote:
Originally posted by slimdave
Or the days when you had four buttons on your TV, one for each available channel plus a spare.
Except BBC2Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
. . . and ALL THREE were worth watching!