Oracle Home: Does not working!!

[rmutyapu]

Hi All,

Can anyone help me how to change the Oracle home?

This is on the Windows XP.

Start -> Programs -> Oracle Installation Products -> Home Selector

I received the following error .......

Unable to determine Oracle home information from the registry. Primary Oracle home unchanged.

Your ideas will help me to change the Oracle Home.


Ramesh

 

[Turkbear]

Some questions:

1: do you have more that one Home?

2: Did the install(s) complete without error?

3: were you aware that only XP Pro is a supported platform?

4: Why would you have more than one home on a PC that only supports ( if Pro) 1 version of the Database software?

More info please....Especially versions of OS, all database and clients, etc...

 

[rmutyapu]

Turkbear,

Thanks for your reply.

I installed on the same pc Oracle9i Database server, Oracle 9i Developer Suite. I have two homes on my Computer.
One is for Database and the other one for Developer Suite.
The operating system I am using is the Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002.

Ans:

1. I have two Oracle Homes.

2. All the products which I installed so far are without errors.

3. As per the Oracle Oracle 9iAS is not certified with the Windows XP Home Edition. Due to system resources and the managenet, I installed on the same PC.

4. Due to system resources I installed on the same PC.

Any suggestions Welcome.

Ramesh

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
No Oracle 9 product is supported on XP Home, so problems might be caused with that setup..


It appears that your registry did not get updated when you installed the second product - did you install then as a user with Administrative rights?

Did the installation program require you to use a different home for the second installation?

I really suspect, however, the OS is the problem....

 

[rmutyapu]

Turkbear,

Here are the error messeges,


1) All Oracle9iAS installations on a host must be installed by the same operating system user. The initial Oracle9iAS installation located at C:\Oracle\Portal was installed by a different operating system user. Please exit this install, log in as the user who installed the initial Oracle9iAS installation, and restart the insall.

2) There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the specified values for 'Source' and 'Destination' are valid.

3) The target area D:\programmeFiles\Oracle\Inventory is being written to by another session. A write lock cannot be obtained.

4) Unable to determine Oracle home information from the registry. Primary Oracle home unchanged.


That was the order of error messeges I received, while installing the Oracle 9iAS on Windows XP Home Edition.

As you mentioned, it might be the OS problem.

Ramesh

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, In addition is seems like some 'trash' got left after an incomplete install...

You can try to uninstall ( manually - stop all Oracle services, remove all registry entries that reference Oracle ( do a full search, they may be anywhere - search for ora, Ora, Oracle and even c:\Oracle and remove the services as well [ in CurrentControlSet] )

Then delete the entire directory structure(s) relating to Oracle..

re-start the PC and, if you want, try again...

 

[rmutyapu]

Turkbear,

I do not want to remove the Oracle 9i Database Server and Oracle 9i Developer Suite from my PC, but I want to Remove the Oracle 9iApplication Server only.

Can you please guide me how to removet the associated files.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Ramesh

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, for that you are 'stuck' with what the Oracle Installer can remove..It would be far too tedious to manually try the method I outlined..you would need to know which installaion
each key referred to..