RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
Yes I posted the wrong link. Now I can't recall where I saw this info, and cannot find it. Though SP4 on Win2k is supposed to cause some serious network latencies. I will post the info if I come across it again. Jared Tim Onions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/2003 02:19 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Jared The URL refers to an alert for NT 4.0, Patrice is talking about Windows 2000 (which is also the MS flavour I'm having problems on), am I being blind here but those are 2 different products? If there is a similar alert for Windows2000 I'd certainly like to hear about it. If anybody is interested in the original Failsafe issue then I can tell you that this morning Oracle have acknowledged it as being a bug (failsafe is looking for Oracle9 libraries!). Fix is "being worked on". T¬ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 18:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 You would be well advised to *not* install SP4. It will destroy network performance. Supposedly this can be corrected: http://tinyurl.com/odlw or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q249/7/99.asp&NoWebContent=1 Jared "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 06:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 The latest service pack for Win2K is SP4. Patrice. -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Good question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service Provider Tel: +44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com -Original Message- From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 12:50 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
Jared The URL refers to an alert for NT 4.0, Patrice is talking about Windows 2000 (which is also the MS flavour I'm having problems on), am I being blind here but those are 2 different products? If there is a similar alert for Windows2000 I'd certainly like to hear about it. If anybody is interested in the original Failsafe issue then I can tell you that this morning Oracle have acknowledged it as being a bug (failsafe is looking for Oracle9 libraries!). Fix is "being worked on". T¬ -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 23 September 2003 18:45To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 You would be well advised to *not* install SP4. It will destroy network performance. Supposedly this can be corrected: http://tinyurl.com/odlwor http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q249/7/99.asp&NoWebContent=1 Jared "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 06:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12The latest service pack for Win2K is SP4. Patrice. -Original Message-From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12Good question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service Provider Tel: +44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 23 September 2003 12:50To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
Hmm... so was I. Posted the wrong URL, and now I can't recall where I saw this. Anyway, SP4 on Windows 2000 is apparently doing bad things to network performance. "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 12:14 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 I was talking about Windows2000 SP4, not NT Workstation / Server 4 SP4... Patrice -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 You would be well advised to *not* install SP4. It will destroy network performance. Supposedly this can be corrected: http://tinyurl.com/odlw or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q249/7/99.asp&NoWebContent=1 Jared "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 06:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 The latest service pack for Win2K is SP4. Patrice. -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Good question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) .the speech-to-data Application Service Provider Tel: +44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com -Original Message- From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 12:50 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
I was talking about Windows2000 SP4, not NT Workstation / Server 4 SP4... Patrice -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:45 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12You would be well advised to *not* install SP4. It will destroy network performance. Supposedly this can be corrected: http://tinyurl.com/odlwor http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q249/7/99.asp&NoWebContent=1 Jared "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 06:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12The latest service pack for Win2K is SP4. Patrice. -Original Message-From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12Good question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service Provider Tel: +44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 23 September 2003 12:50To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
You would be well advised to *not* install SP4. It will destroy network performance. Supposedly this can be corrected: http://tinyurl.com/odlw or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q249/7/99.asp&NoWebContent=1 Jared "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 06:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 The latest service pack for Win2K is SP4. Patrice. -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Good question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service Provider Tel: +44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com -Original Message- From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 12:50 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 Tim, Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the context. thanks! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- From: Tim Onions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12 To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
The
latest service pack for Win2K is SP4.
Patrice.
-Original Message-From: Tim Onions
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 23,
2003 9:55 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset
12
Good
question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one.
_ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service
Provider Tel:
+44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com
-Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 23 September 2003
12:50To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe
and patchset 12
Tim,
Just curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or
for Oracle?
Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the
context.
thanks!
Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional
-Original Message-From: Tim Onions
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September
23, 2003 8:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset
12
To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe,
After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv
server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator)
stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not
start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due
diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the
patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set
and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same
problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from
failsafe.
So two things:
1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully
before applying patch set 12
2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or
unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put
pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going
on.
Many thanks
T¬
RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
Good
question, it's an Oracle8i patchset not a Windows one.
_ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service
Provider Tel:
+44.1684.312364 http://www.speechmachines.com
-Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 23 September 2003
12:50To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: Oracle8i, Failsafe and
patchset 12
Tim,
Just
curious - is Patchset 12 for Windows 2000, or for Oracle?
Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I am lost in the
context.
thanks!
Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional
-Original Message-From: Tim Onions
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September
23, 2003 8:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset
12
To
anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe,
After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server
failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being
able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again -
saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence
exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no
flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support
are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs
fine but has had to be removed from failsafe.
So
two things:
1
- if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before
applying patch set 12
2
- if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully
with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on
Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going
on.
Many thanks
T¬
Oracle8i, Failsafe and patchset 12
To anybody using Oracle8i and failsafe, After implementing 8.1.7.4 patchset 12 on my Windows 2000 adv server failsafe configuration failsafe (and MS Cluster administrator) stopped being able to control the Oracle service (it can stop it but not start it again - saying things like "file not found"!). All the due diligence exercises have been done and I am convinced the patching was no flawed on my part. I suspect a bug in the patch set and Oracle support are indicating that others may be having the same problem. My database runs fine but has had to be removed from failsafe. So two things: 1 - if you are using failsafe and Oracle8i think very carefully before applying patch set 12 2 - if you have applied patch set 12 either successfully or unsuccessfully with failsafe I'd love to hear from you so I can either put pressure on Oracle for a fix or share some thoughts on what is going on. Many thanks T¬
