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  • a153153153
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    Unistall Oracle with Faulty Uninstaller

    Hi
    I have the following problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    I have installed Oracle Enterprise Version 9i. During installation,
    something went wrong and it doesnt work ( was trying to get only the
    packages I wanted). I am now trying to uninstall and reinstall again.
    I have tried the following:

    1. Use the universal uninstaller. Hangs when I go to uninstall
    products. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the oracle inventory
    file. Since uninstaller cannot read the inventory, cannot perform
    uninstall. I sometimes get a "cannot obtain lock" message. I cannot
    even get a list of existing products.

    2. Manual uninstalling by removing the oracle folder. Fails because
    the file apache.exe is in use. Tried to manuanlly killing apache.exe
    thread but failed. It appears that I have 2 apache.exe threads running
    at the same time. Thus I cant kill one or the other. Result, oracle
    still there.

    I suspect I must have done something to cause oracle to run in the
    background somehow. I have a isqlplus process running and it cannot be
    killed. Tells me its in use. Its there even if I manually deleta the
    sqlplus folder.

    Thanks
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    • sybrandb@yahoo.com
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      Re: Unistall Oracle with Faulty Uninstaller

      a153153153@yaho o.com (a153153153) wrote in message news:<59180ec1. 0309170511.36bf 026a@posting.go ogle.com>...
      Hi
      I have the following problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
      >
      I have installed Oracle Enterprise Version 9i. During installation,
      something went wrong and it doesnt work ( was trying to get only the
      packages I wanted). I am now trying to uninstall and reinstall again.
      I have tried the following:
      >
      1. Use the universal uninstaller. Hangs when I go to uninstall
      products. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the oracle inventory
      file. Since uninstaller cannot read the inventory, cannot perform
      uninstall. I sometimes get a "cannot obtain lock" message. I cannot
      even get a list of existing products.
      >
      2. Manual uninstalling by removing the oracle folder. Fails because
      the file apache.exe is in use. Tried to manuanlly killing apache.exe
      thread but failed. It appears that I have 2 apache.exe threads running
      at the same time. Thus I cant kill one or the other. Result, oracle
      still there.
      >
      I suspect I must have done something to cause oracle to run in the
      background somehow. I have a isqlplus process running and it cannot be
      killed. Tells me its in use. Its there even if I manually deleta the
      sqlplus folder.
      >
      Thanks
      Apache is a *SERVICE*. Does that ring a bell? Why don't you just
      stop the service?
      The main thing you have done until now is not reading the
      documentaion. Oracle is implemented as a service, so always runs in
      the background.

      Sybrand Bakker
      Senior Oracle DBA

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