It's just like every other cure for Windohs -- hack the registry, = reboot, delete services, reboot again, rename some .DLLs, reboot, relink = Oracle, reboot again, then when it doesn't work, delete all Oracle = registry entries, delete the OUI folders in %TEMP%, delete all the = Oracle-installed folders, and re-install Oracle. And reboot. Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:59 AM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: How to convert RAC database to single Instance Database On nice operating systems, de-installing RAC/ops is done by executing make -f $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk no_parropt install I don't really know how is that done on Windows. This step is mandatory, = because if this isn't done, then sqlplus will be looking for DLM when=20 connecting as SYSDBA, and will report a TNS error, followed by ORA-3113=20 when it doesn't find it. -- Mladen Gogala ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------