When this happens (Oracle dll's in use by another program), Check if MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator) service is running - ussually it locks some oracle dlls in memory. P.S. Nial, this could be an item for your paper (Oracle on MSWin). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Freeman, Donald Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:36 PM To: stant_98@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 9.2.0.6 for win32 We are just finishing up our first one. We had a pretty rocky start. = Although we stopped the database, stopped all the services, we were = still getting messages that some of the Oracle dll's were in use by = another program. We ending up 'ignoring' and 'continuing' and = 'retrying' throughout the installation until we got 'patch installation = complete.' We did try to reboot to kill anything that might have been = hung but couldn't figure out what was running. It was a bad idea to = push through; we corrupted the binaries and had to reinstall the base = 9.2.0.1. The second time through everything seems to be working fine. = We are almost done. Don't know about Data Guard. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alex Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:54 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 9.2.0.6 for win32 Has anyone installed this patch on Windows? Just wanted to ask your = feedback regarding the installation as well as other issues particularly = those tied with Data Guard... =20 Thanks Fyi, although OTN's link to patches (http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/patches.htm ) says the latest version for win32 is 9.2.0.5, Metalink has a 9.2.0.6. patch for win32, release Oct 31st. When I checked on Friday I didn't see 9.2.0.6 patches for linux or = tru64. Patrice. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l =09 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l