When I tried to apply patch I got:
C:\oracle\install\p8609347_10204_MSWIN-x86-64\8609347>opatch apply Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.5.0 Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.5.0 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle Home : C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1 Central Inventory : C:\oracle\Inventory from : n/a OPatch version : 10.2.0.5.0 OUI version : 10.2.0.4.0 OUI location : C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oui Log file location : C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2010-09-13_08-54-22AM.log Patch history file: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch_history.txt ApplySession applying interim patch '8609347' to OH 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1' Interim patch 8609347 is a superset of the patch(es) [ 8609347 ] in the Oracle Home OPatch will rollback the subset patches and apply the given patch. Running prerequisite checks... Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. The details are: Following files are active : C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraclient10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orapls10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oracommon10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orageneric10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oraclient10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\orapls10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oracommon10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\orageneric10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraimr10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraplp10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oraplp10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oracle.exe C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oracle.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orajox10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oranls10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oranls10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orasnls10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\orasnls10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oran10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oranl10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orannzsbb10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oracore10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oracore10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orahasgen10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\orahasgen10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\orahasgen10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraocr10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oraocr10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraocrb10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin\oraocrb10.sym C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraldapclnt10.dll C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oraxml10.dll ApplySession failed during prerequisite checks: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. System intact, OPatch will not attempt to restore the system -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following warnings have occurred during OPatch execution: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPatch failed with error code = 74 C:\oracle\install\p8609347_10204_MSWIN-x86-64\8609347>
The solution
Killing Windows processes that holds some DLLs are not so easy when you have to kill something else then Explorer or there were several blocked DLLS (at it was in mine case).So I found out nice freeware utility Unlocker which is made for 32 as well as 64 bit Windows versions. It's advantage over Who's Locking?, which I was using until now, is that Unlocker can release all locks on whole directory in one step.
Cheers!
