Recently I was trying to update one of the Oracle Linux 7 boxes that is used for lab & came across multiple errors.
OCI : Yum Fails with [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: yum-iad.$ocidomain; Unknown error"
[Errno 14] curl#60 - "Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user."
I kept on doing almost everything yum was suggesting, disable the repos, cleaning etc. Yes, I did ping both google.com & yahoo.com to “insure” that I was connected to “internet” (I’m still struggling to figure out how the heck I managed to ping these hosts when I was actually unable to connect to Oracle mirrors)
However, after exhausting more than couple of hours, I decided to access the server through VNC & see whether I am missing something, that cannot be done from the command line.
Fired up Firefox & realized, I am not connected to “Internet” in real terms. I couldn’t open any pages and I proceeded with adding the static IP address to exclusion list and that was it.
So, if you ever come across the above mentioned errors, make sure you ARE connected!
Recently at a gathering I was asked about my job. I told a group of young chaps that I work with Oracle EBS and my primary role is developing extensions using Oracle Forms & Reports. Interestingly, none of them knew anything about Oracle Forms & Reports.
Couple of days back I installed Oracle 11G R2 database once “again” as I had to open our legacy software for some historical data access. Then I had to develop a report and to my utter surprise, found Oracle 10g report developer will not connect to 11G database, generating the following errors:
REP-0501: Unable to connect to the specified database.
ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed
I hurried to check the database sqlnet.ora file and found the authentication set as NTS (Windows default for Oracle products) & interestingly Developer 6i products were connecting to the database without any issues. This helped me to confirm that issues were from Developer 10g side & I changed the sqlnet.ora settings for the Developer 10g Suite.
from NTS to NONE did the trick.
I don’t know how my people are ever going to land on this page! Trust me, I haven’t seen an interesting question about Oracle Forms/Reports in any of the Oracle support forums from last many years. I will be pretty sad to see such a wonderful product that was built for developing Business applications on the go being ignored for some crappy browser based gimmicks.
Last couple of years, I stopped evaluating new Windows OS, as they were shipped with so many bugs and updates breaking them further. I felt reporting the bugs didn’t make anything better & few of the folks from Microsoft on Twitter are just lame like their OS. Always finding excuses for a broken OS.
Well, regardless, I always applied the updates, always fixed the issues and continued working on my projects, which are Oracle development (mostly). Like usual, I’ve downloaded the Windows11 22H2 the very first day it was released and upgraded my work laptop. Basically the OS is once again filled with many bugs, one of the notorious being the large file copying lag issues, that is openly acknowledged by Microsoft.
Well I was stuck by an undocumented issue ;) Whenever I tried to open File Explorer, it took many minutes before it was ready to interact with. None of the searches landed me on a proper solution & I just wasted hours tweaking the OS following tips to parameterize the OS for better performance. Then I was expected to copy a large SQL output for our sales manager and I had a shortcut for a folder in his computer on my desktop. I couldn’t open this folder this time & I couldn’t find his laptop’s hostname in the DNS. As the folder was mapped using the hostname, every time I tried to access the folder, gave me the same network path not found error. It took the same amount of time file explorer tried to open & I could make a guess towards what was going wrong with the file explorer.
I remembered this particular folder always listed under the quick access area of the File explorer & I removed it from the quick access area once after the File Explorer was ready next time. File Explorer started opening as snappier as possible then onwards.
Now, this looks like another problem from Microsoft’s latest release that attempts to connect to all the items listed under quick access, ie, like connecting the network folders & failing to establish a connection, throws the exception “File explorer not responding” and taking minutes until the attempts are aborted.
I’ve many folders pinned to quick access area, as a developer I work with multiple projects and this saves loads of time for me. Windows 10, 11 keep tabs on regularly accessed items and pin them to quick access area, a default behavior of the OS. This might create certain unexpected situations like the one I described above. I will not say this feature is useless, but sometimes a user who is not that tech savvy may never realize what is going on here. If I were the File explorer designer/developer I will definitely make sure to code the piece in a way that Explorer would try to connect to network folders only when the user tries to open the folder.
Said, if you are having the same issues with File Explorer taking too much time to open, please check whether any network folders are listed under Quick Access area. If yes, remove them. Unless you are a die hard of fan of automatically pinning items in the Quick Access area, disable the automatic pinning.
This could OS automatically pinning items to your Quick access area & avoid the issue I were discussing.
If your hardware is eligible, might have noticed a banner like below
whenever you visited Windows update settings area. It’s free, it’s ready & there are a million possibilities stop your computer from upgrading to Windows 11. The only one thing Windows upgrade manages to show is a popup telling you “Windows 11 installation has failed” after a failure.
Please note, as I already mentioned, there could be a million reasons failing the upgrade, especially when you are upgrading from Windows 10 that was upgraded from different versions of Windows 7,8 and 10 itself. I’ve lost of the count of upgrades I’ve made to my semi-server type desktop machine and didn’t expect Windows 11 upgrade all smooth at the first place. I knew I was in for a long game. My machine has different database software installed for testing, my Kids have heavy games like Doom & other and a clean installation was not at all my first choice.
So my first task was to find out where exactly the installation process writes the errors. To be quite frank, I haven’t had many installation/upgrade issues in near future and I totally forgot where to look for the logs! A quick search landed me on this post Log files that are created when you upgrade to a new version of Windows (microsoft.com) & as my upgrade failed, I was able to locate the “setuperr.log” file at this location “C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\panther”
Based on the errors, the log file could have hundreds of lines. Mine had the below listed.
2022-10-08 10:40:19, Error MOUPG CDlpActionImpl<class CDlpErrorImpl<class CDlpObjectInternalImpl<class CUnknownImpl<class IMoSetupDlpAction> > > >::Suspend(1253): Result = 0xC1800104[gle=0x00000002] 2022-10-08 10:40:19, Error MOUPG CDlpTask::CheckUserInterruptEx(3060): Result = 0x800704D3 2022-10-08 10:40:19, Error MOUPG CDlpTask::CheckUserInterrupt(3112): Result = 0x800704D3 2022-10-08 10:40:19, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteInstallMode(1006): Result = 0x800705BB 2022-10-08 10:40:19, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteDownlevelMode(569): Result = 0x800705BB 2022-10-08 10:40:20, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::Execute(313): Result = 0x800705BB 2022-10-08 10:40:20, Error MOUPG CSetupHost::Execute(454): Result = 0x800705BB 2022-10-08 10:40:25, Error CONX Appraiser: ERROR,SdbpGetManifestedMergeStubAlloc,1017,SdbpGetMergeSdbsDisabled failed [c0000034] 2022-10-08 10:43:37, Error DU DU::CDUSession::Search: Failed to set WU internal configuration property for targeted scans. hr = 0x80070057 2022-10-08 10:45:12, Error CONX Appraiser: ERROR,SdbpGetManifestedMergeStubAlloc,1017,SdbpGetMergeSdbsDisabled failed [c0000034] 2022-10-08 10:45:19, Error CONX aeinv: ERROR,StoreAppFinder::EnumeratePackages,414,onecore\base\appcompat\inventory\software\inv\lib\storeappfinder.cpp(489)\aeinv.dll!00007FFF5F3ABB72: (caller: 00007FFF5F3AACD0) Exception(1) tid(13c8) 80070780 The file cannot be accessed by the system.## 2022-10-08 10:45:19, Error CONX aeinv: ERROR,StoreAppFinder::EnumeratePackages,414,onecore\base\appcompat\inventory\software\inv\lib\storeappfinder.cpp(489)\aeinv.dll!00007FFF5F3ABB72: (caller: 00007FFF5F3AACD0) Exception(2) tid(13c8) 80070780 The file cannot be accessed by the system.## 2022-10-08 10:45:36, Error CONX aeinv: ERROR,OrphanFileFinder::GetEvidence,98,onecore\base\appcompat\inventory\software\inv\lib\file.cpp(1881)\aeinv.dll!00007FFF5F3A6E51: (caller: 00007FFF5F3E8532) Exception(3) tid(13c8) 80070001 Incorrect function.## 2022-10-08 10:45:43, Error CONX devinv: ERROR,DeviceMapInitializeTelemetryAndCache,144,TelCacheProvider::Initialize failed [0x80004002] 2022-10-08 10:45:43, Error CONX acmigration: ERROR,CheckDriverStatus,2249,GetDevInventory failed_ 80004002 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3682073875-1643277370-2842298652-3532359455-2406259117): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2652535364-2169709536-2857650723-2622804123-1107741775): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1010): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3006700770-424185619-1745488364-794895919-4004696415): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-4050220999-2730734961-1537482082-519850261-379003301): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-500): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1001): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4068219030-1673637257-3279585211-533386110-4122969689): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4155437066-4169509114-2127487463-1916158496-2406408509): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-271721585-897601226-2024613209-625570482-296978595): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-3880718306-3832830129-1677859214-2598158968-1052248003): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-344959196-2060754871-2302487193-2804545603-1466107430): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3876422241-1344743610-1729199087-774402673-2621913236): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-1036420768-1044797643-1061213386-2937092688-4282445334): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2885764129-887777008-271615777-1616004480-2722851051): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:54:05, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1022): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:30, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:43, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:44, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:44, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:44, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:44, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:54, Error [0x0808ff] MIG COutOfProcPluginFactory::CreateInstance: m_currentHostSurrogate->LoadDllServer(C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\ReplacementManifests\Microsoft-Windows-RasServer-MigPlugin\RasMigPlugin.dll, {D26AA4A5-92AD-48DB-8D59-95EF0DCE6939}, 1) failed, hr=[0x8007007f]. 2022-10-08 10:56:54, Error [0x080387] MIG Failure while calling IDiscovery->Discover for Plugin={ServerPath="Microsoft-Windows-RasServer-MigPlugin\RasMigPlugin.dll", CLSID={D26AA4A5-92AD-48DB-8D59-95EF0DCE6939}, ThreadingModel=Apartment, ExceptionHandling=Default}. Error: 0x8007007F 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3682073875-1643277370-2842298652-3532359455-2406259117): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2652535364-2169709536-2857650723-2622804123-1107741775): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1010): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3006700770-424185619-1745488364-794895919-4004696415): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-4050220999-2730734961-1537482082-519850261-379003301): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-500): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1001): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4068219030-1673637257-3279585211-533386110-4122969689): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4155437066-4169509114-2127487463-1916158496-2406408509): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-271721585-897601226-2024613209-625570482-296978595): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-3880718306-3832830129-1677859214-2598158968-1052248003): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-344959196-2060754871-2302487193-2804545603-1466107430): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3876422241-1344743610-1729199087-774402673-2621913236): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-1036420768-1044797643-1061213386-2937092688-4282445334): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2885764129-887777008-271615777-1616004480-2722851051): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:56:55, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1022): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 10:57:11, Error MigPlatformStartupOnline caught exception: Win32Exception: Duplicate profile detected for S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023. Abandoning.: The specified user does not have a valid profile. [0x000004E5] class Mig::CUserContext *__cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::AddUserContext(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::Array<class UnBCL::String *> *,int,struct _FILETIME,int,int,int,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *) 2022-10-08 10:57:11, Error SP pSPDoMainGather: Engine initialization failed with error: 0x00000004 2022-10-08 10:57:11, Error SP CGatherData: Migration phase failed. Status: 4 2022-10-08 10:57:11, Error SP Operation failed: Gather data, scope: EVERYTHING. Error: 0x8007001F[gle=0x000000b7] 2022-10-08 10:57:12, Error SP CSetupPlatform::ResurrectAutomation: Failed to resurrect automation: 0x80070002[gle=0x00000002] 2022-10-08 11:07:23, Error InitDownlevelOCMode caught exception: Win32Exception: Duplicate profile detected for S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023. Abandoning.: The specified user does not have a valid profile. [0x000004E5] class Mig::CUserContext *__cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::AddUserContext(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::Array<class UnBCL::String *> *,int,struct _FILETIME,int,int,int,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *) 2022-10-08 11:07:23, Error MIG OC Exception: OC::CDownlevelOCStore::CDownlevelOCStore: Engine's InitDownlevelOCMode failed. 2022-10-08 11:07:23, Error SP OC Validator: Failed to gather OC status. Errors are not ignored 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:24, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLTELEMETRY. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user NT SERVICE\SQLServerReportingServices. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\Classic .NET AppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v4.5 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\.NET v2.0 Classic. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:25, Error [0x0803b6] MIG Can't retrieve group information for user IIS APPPOOL\nop. NetUserGetLocalGroups failed 0x000008AD 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3682073875-1643277370-2842298652-3532359455-2406259117): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2652535364-2169709536-2857650723-2622804123-1107741775): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1010): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3006700770-424185619-1745488364-794895919-4004696415): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-4050220999-2730734961-1537482082-519850261-379003301): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-500): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1001): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4068219030-1673637257-3279585211-533386110-4122969689): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-4155437066-4169509114-2127487463-1916158496-2406408509): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-271721585-897601226-2024613209-625570482-296978595): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-3880718306-3832830129-1677859214-2598158968-1052248003): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-344959196-2060754871-2302487193-2804545603-1466107430): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-3876422241-1344743610-1729199087-774402673-2621913236): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-82-1036420768-1044797643-1061213386-2937092688-4282445334): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-80-2885764129-887777008-271615777-1616004480-2722851051): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:26, Error SP Failure while getting the known folder path for CSIDL_PRINTHOOD (S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1022): Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified. [0x00000002] class UnBCL::String *__cdecl Mig::CFacadeUser::GetKnownFolderLocation(class UnBCL::String *,int *,class UnBCL::String **) 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error MigPlatformStartupOnline caught exception: Win32Exception: Duplicate profile detected for S-1-5-21-3050672445-3209544092-517134063-1023. Abandoning.: The specified user does not have a valid profile. [0x000004E5] class Mig::CUserContext *__cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::AddUserContext(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::Array<class UnBCL::String *> *,int,struct _FILETIME,int,int,int,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *) 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP pSPDoMainGather: Engine initialization failed with error: 0x00000004 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP CGatherData: Migration phase failed. Status: 4 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP Operation failed: Gather data, scope: EVERYTHING. Error: 0x8007001F[gle=0x000000b7] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP COperationQueue::Sort: Could not find an execution phase for 56[gle=0x00000002] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP ExecuteOperations: Operations cannot be sorted. This is a fatal failure.[gle=0x00000002] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP ExecuteOperations: Main operation execution failed. Error: 0x8007000D 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error SP ExecuteOperations: Failed execution phase Finalize. Error: 0x8007000D 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error MOUPG MoSetupPlatform: Finalize reported failure![gle=0x8007000d] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error MOUPG MoSetupPlatform: Using action error code: [0x8007001F][gle=0x8007000d] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error MOUPG CDlpActionFinalize::ExecuteSetupPlatformFinalize(1192): Result = 0x8007001F[gle=0x8007000d] 2022-10-08 11:07:41, Error MOUPG CDlpActionFinalize::ExecuteRoutine(514): Result = 0x8007001F[gle=0x8007000d] 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CDlpActionImpl<class CDlpErrorImpl<class CDlpObjectInternalImpl<class CUnknownImpl<class IMoSetupDlpAction> > > >::Execute(493): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CDlpTask::ExecuteAction(3300): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CDlpTask::ExecuteActions(3454): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CDlpTask::Execute(1631): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteTask(2928): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteTask(2891): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteInstallMode(1110): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:43, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::ExecuteDownlevelMode(569): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:47, Error MOUPG CSetupManager::Execute(313): Result = 0x8007001F 2022-10-08 11:07:47, Error MOUPG CSetupHost::Execute(454): Result = 0x8007001F
Among of a list of issues, I recognized the duplicate profile error(s) without much sweat as this issue has been persistent from the Windows 7 times.
Now the fix that is discussed here is not for a normal computer user. If you have landed here, searching for a solution for your home computer and haven’t dealt with Windows registry in the past, manually managing it, please stop & seek the help of someone who is familiar with these kind of activities.
Make a backup for complete Windows Registry. This is very important to rollback incase if something goes wrong.
Go to “Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList” node. From the setuperr.log file you already have a profile id that is reported as “duplicate”. Browse through the profile ids and locate the profile that doesn’t exist. For example, my user account for the system is “rajesh” and I had two profile ids, one having the Profile Image Path “C:\Users\rajesh” and the other profile id having profile image path “C:\Users\Rajesh”
I deleted that non-existing profile id from the registry (ie, C:\Users\Rajesh) and restarted upgrade. Everything went ahead smooth and within next 10-15 minutes, Windows 11 booted without issues.
A list of other measures that you could try in case if your upgrade fails are:
Remove all connected external devices other than keyboard & mouse
Uninstall SSD/NVMe managers (software that help you to monitor the SSD drives)
Uninstall 3rd party antivirus software. One of the major reasons for failures
Check for adequate free storage space on your system drive, normally C: drive
Use Windows built-in troubleshoot to fix Windows update errors
During installation, let the installer check for updates and download the necessary
Recently I updated one of my posts that discussed about applying patches to Oracle 19c instance, that has minimum one PDB. This time we will discuss about how to rollback a patch. For the exercise I will be rolling back patch number 34110685 “Windows Database Bundle Patch : 19.16.0.0.220719 (34110685)”
Please note, to install patch 34110685 you must have opatch 12.2.0.1.30 or higher. The same applies for rolling back also.
Use opatch to find out the latest patch details.
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.32
Copyright (c) 2022, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : D:\Oracle19c
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
from :
OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.32
OUI version : 12.2.0.7.0
Log file location : D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2022-09-15_10-59-45AM_1.log
Lsinventory Output file location : D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\opatch\lsinv\lsinventory2022-09-15_10-59-45AM.txt
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Local Machine Information::
Hostname: ora.abc.com
ARU platform id: 233
ARU platform description:: Microsoft Windows (64-bit AMD)
Installed Top-level Products (1):
Oracle Database 19c 19.0.0.0.0
There are 1 products installed in this Oracle Home.
Interim patches (1) :
Patch 34110685 : applied on Sun Aug 14 12:02:50 AST 2022
Unique Patch ID: 24797704
Patch description: "Windows Database Bundle Patch : 19.16.0.0.220719 (34110685)"
Created on 28 Jul 2022, 09:34:43 hrs UTC
Bugs fixed:
34208548, 34264633, 34291960, 34293849, 34311758, 30151886, 31649223
32012137, 32079097, 32223654, 33115620, 33182177, 33324055, 33360476
33390342, 33423383, 33510227, 33899902, 33907346, 33957025, 33964258
34034279, 34088985, 34088989, 34110342, 34132318, 34147169, 34162335,.......
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OPatch succeeded.
Once we have the latest patch details, shutdown all running Oracle instances and stop Windows services for Oracle (listener & database services)
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>opatch rollback -id 34110685
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.32
Copyright (c) 2022, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : D:\Oracle19c
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
from :
OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.32
OUI version : 12.2.0.7.0
Log file location : D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2022-09-15_11-02-48AM_1.log
Patches will be rolled back in the following order:
34110685
The following patch(es) will be rolled back: 34110685
Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.
(Oracle Home = 'D:\Oracle19c')
Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
Rolling back patch 34110685...
RollbackSession rolling back interim patch '34110685' from OH 'D:\Oracle19c'
Patching component oracle.has.common.cvu, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.has.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.assistants.server, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ons, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.has.common, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.util, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.sdo.locator.jrf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.sqlplus, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.dbjava.jdbc, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.network.listener, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.odbc.ic, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.rman, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.dbjava.ucp, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ldap.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.precomp.common.core, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.oracore.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ntoledb.odp_net_2, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.has.db, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ntoramts, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.marvel, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.xdk.parser.java, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.network.client, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.blaslapack, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.tfa.db, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ctx, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.hsodbc, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.assistants.deconfig, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ldap.owm, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.duma, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.precomp.lang, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.install.common, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ldap.security.osdt, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.sdo, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.rsf.ic, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.sqlplus.ic, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.lbac, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.oraolap, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.precomp.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ntoledbolap, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.assistants.acf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ntoledb, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.javavm.server, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.precomp.common, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.network.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ovm, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.install.deinstalltool, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.oci, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.clrintg.ode_net_2, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.nlsrtl.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.install.plugins, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.javavm.client, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.deconfig, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.dbjava.ic, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.dv, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.aspnet_2, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.usm.deconfig, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.dbdev, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ons.ic, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.mgw.common, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.xdk, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.oracler.server, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.plsql, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.xdk.rsf, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.ctx.atg, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.dbscripts, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.olap, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.sdo.locator, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.scheduler, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.xdk.xquery, 19.0.0.0.0...
Patching component oracle.jdk, 1.8.0.201.0...
RollbackSession removing interim patch '34110685' from inventory
Inactive sub-set patch [33575656] has become active due to the rolling back of a super-set patch [34110685].
Please refer to Doc ID 2161861.1 for any possible further required actions.
Log file location: D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2022-09-15_11-02-48AM_1.log
OPatch succeeded.
Restart all Windows services for Oracle & startup the database instance.
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Thu Sep 15 11:07:07 2022
Version 19.14.0.0.0
Copyright (c) 1982, 2021, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 4294965408 bytes
Fixed Size 9275552 bytes
Variable Size 1207959552 bytes
Database Buffers 3070230528 bytes
Redo Buffers 7499776 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> alter pluggable database all open;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Version 19.14.0.0.0
Now we should apply the data patch to the database.
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>datapatch.bat -verbose
SQL Patching tool version 19.14.0.0.0 Production on Thu Sep 15 11:09:47 2022
Copyright (c) 2012, 2021, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Log file for this invocation: D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\sqlpatch\sqlpatch_1148_2022_09_15_11_09_47\sqlpatch_invocation.log
Connecting to database...OK
Gathering database info...done
Note: Datapatch will only apply or rollback SQL fixes for PDBs
that are in an open state, no patches will be applied to closed PDBs.
Please refer to Note: Datapatch: Database 12c Post Patch SQL Automation
(Doc ID 1585822.1)
Bootstrapping registry and package to current versions...done
Determining current state...done
Current state of interim SQL patches:
No interim patches found
Current state of release update SQL patches:
Binary registry:
19.14.0.0.0 Release_Update 211229195225: Installed
PDB CDB$ROOT:
Applied 19.16.0.0.0 Release_Update 220717095735 successfully on 14-AUG-22 12.38.13.440000 PM
PDB SCT:
Applied 19.16.0.0.0 Release_Update 220717095735 successfully on 14-AUG-22 12.38.16.841000 PM
PDB PDB$SEED:
Applied 19.16.0.0.0 Release_Update 220717095735 successfully on 14-AUG-22 12.38.15.127000 PM
Adding patches to installation queue and performing prereq checks...done
Installation queue:
For the following PDBs: CDB$ROOT PDB$SEED SCT
No interim patches need to be rolled back
Patch 34110685 (Windows Database Bundle Patch : 19.16.0.0.220719 (34110685)):
Rollback from 19.16.0.0.0 Release_Update 220717095735 to 19.14.0.0.0 Release_Update 211229195225
No interim patches need to be applied
Installing patches...
Patch installation complete. Total patches installed: 3
Validating logfiles...done
Patch 34110685 rollback (pdb CDB$ROOT): SUCCESS
logfile: D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\sqlpatch\34110685\24797704/34110685_rollback_SCTCD_CDBROOT_2022Sep15_11_10_47.log (no errors)
Patch 34110685 rollback (pdb PDB$SEED): SUCCESS
logfile: D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\sqlpatch\34110685\24797704/34110685_rollback_SCTCD_PDBSEED_2022Sep15_11_13_25.log (no errors)
Patch 34110685 rollback (pdb SCT): SUCCESS
logfile: D:\Oracle19c\cfgtoollogs\sqlpatch\34110685\24797704/34110685_rollback_SCTCD_SCT_2022Sep15_11_13_26.log (no errors)
SQL Patching tool complete on Thu Sep 15 11:16:25 2022
Now we have to recompile database components.
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Thu Sep 15 11:24:39 2022
Version 19.14.0.0.0
Copyright (c) 1982, 2021, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Version 19.14.0.0.0
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
Session altered.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_BGN 2022-09-15 11:24:49
DOC> The following PL/SQL block invokes UTL_RECOMP to recompile invalid
DOC> objects in the database. Recompilation time is proportional to the
DOC> number of invalid objects in the database, so this command may take
DOC> a long time to execute on a database with a large number of invalid
DOC> objects.
DOC>
DOC> Use the following queries to track recompilation progress:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query returning the number of invalid objects remaining. This
DOC> number should decrease with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM obj$ WHERE status IN (4, 5, 6);
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query returning the number of objects compiled so far. This number
DOC> should increase with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM UTL_RECOMP_COMPILED;
DOC>
DOC> This script automatically chooses serial or parallel recompilation
DOC> based on the number of CPUs available (parameter cpu_count) multiplied
DOC> by the number of threads per CPU (parameter parallel_threads_per_cpu).
DOC> On RAC, this number is added across all RAC nodes.
DOC>
DOC> UTL_RECOMP uses DBMS_SCHEDULER to create jobs for parallel
DOC> recompilation. Jobs are created without instance affinity so that they
DOC> can migrate across RAC nodes. Use the following queries to verify
DOC> whether UTL_RECOMP jobs are being created and run correctly:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query showing jobs created by UTL_RECOMP
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query showing UTL_RECOMP jobs that are running
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_running_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>#
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_END 2022-09-15 11:24:50
DOC> The following query reports the number of invalid objects.
DOC>
DOC> If the number is higher than expected, please examine the error
DOC> messages reported with each object (using SHOW ERRORS) to see if they
DOC> point to system misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before attempting to recompile these objects.
DOC>#
OBJECTS WITH ERRORS
-------------------
0
DOC> The following query reports the number of exceptions caught during
DOC> recompilation. If this number is non-zero, please query the error
DOC> messages in the table UTL_RECOMP_ERRORS to see if any of these errors
DOC> are due to misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before objects can compile successfully.
DOC> Note: Typical compilation errors (due to coding errors) are not
DOC> logged into this table: they go into DBA_ERRORS instead.
DOC>#
ERRORS DURING RECOMPILATION
---------------------------
0
Function created.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Function dropped.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> alter session set container=PDB$SEED;
Session altered.
SQL> alter session set "_oracle_script"=TRUE;
Session altered.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed close immediate instances=all;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed OPEN READ WRITE;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
Session altered.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_BGN 2022-09-15 11:25:56
DOC> The following PL/SQL block invokes UTL_RECOMP to recompile invalid
DOC> objects in the database. Recompilation time is proportional to the
DOC> number of invalid objects in the database, so this command may take
DOC> a long time to execute on a database with a large number of invalid
DOC> objects.
DOC>
DOC> Use the following queries to track recompilation progress:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query returning the number of invalid objects remaining. This
DOC> number should decrease with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM obj$ WHERE status IN (4, 5, 6);
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query returning the number of objects compiled so far. This number
DOC> should increase with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM UTL_RECOMP_COMPILED;
DOC>
DOC> This script automatically chooses serial or parallel recompilation
DOC> based on the number of CPUs available (parameter cpu_count) multiplied
DOC> by the number of threads per CPU (parameter parallel_threads_per_cpu).
DOC> On RAC, this number is added across all RAC nodes.
DOC>
DOC> UTL_RECOMP uses DBMS_SCHEDULER to create jobs for parallel
DOC> recompilation. Jobs are created without instance affinity so that they
DOC> can migrate across RAC nodes. Use the following queries to verify
DOC> whether UTL_RECOMP jobs are being created and run correctly:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query showing jobs created by UTL_RECOMP
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query showing UTL_RECOMP jobs that are running
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_running_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>#
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_END 2022-09-15 11:25:58
DOC> The following query reports the number of invalid objects.
DOC>
DOC> If the number is higher than expected, please examine the error
DOC> messages reported with each object (using SHOW ERRORS) to see if they
DOC> point to system misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before attempting to recompile these objects.
DOC>#
OBJECTS WITH ERRORS
-------------------
0
DOC> The following query reports the number of exceptions caught during
DOC> recompilation. If this number is non-zero, please query the error
DOC> messages in the table UTL_RECOMP_ERRORS to see if any of these errors
DOC> are due to misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before objects can compile successfully.
DOC> Note: Typical compilation errors (due to coding errors) are not
DOC> logged into this table: they go into DBA_ERRORS instead.
DOC>#
ERRORS DURING RECOMPILATION
---------------------------
0
Function created.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Function dropped.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed close immediate instances=all;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed OPEN READ ONLY;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> alter session set "_oracle_script"=FALSE;
Session altered.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed close immediate instances=all;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> alter pluggable database pdb$seed OPEN READ ONLY;
Pluggable database altered.
SQL> alter session set container="SCT";
Session altered.
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
Session altered.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_BGN 2022-09-15 11:27:44
DOC> The following PL/SQL block invokes UTL_RECOMP to recompile invalid
DOC> objects in the database. Recompilation time is proportional to the
DOC> number of invalid objects in the database, so this command may take
DOC> a long time to execute on a database with a large number of invalid
DOC> objects.
DOC>
DOC> Use the following queries to track recompilation progress:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query returning the number of invalid objects remaining. This
DOC> number should decrease with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM obj$ WHERE status IN (4, 5, 6);
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query returning the number of objects compiled so far. This number
DOC> should increase with time.
DOC> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM UTL_RECOMP_COMPILED;
DOC>
DOC> This script automatically chooses serial or parallel recompilation
DOC> based on the number of CPUs available (parameter cpu_count) multiplied
DOC> by the number of threads per CPU (parameter parallel_threads_per_cpu).
DOC> On RAC, this number is added across all RAC nodes.
DOC>
DOC> UTL_RECOMP uses DBMS_SCHEDULER to create jobs for parallel
DOC> recompilation. Jobs are created without instance affinity so that they
DOC> can migrate across RAC nodes. Use the following queries to verify
DOC> whether UTL_RECOMP jobs are being created and run correctly:
DOC>
DOC> 1. Query showing jobs created by UTL_RECOMP
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>
DOC> 2. Query showing UTL_RECOMP jobs that are running
DOC> SELECT job_name FROM dba_scheduler_running_jobs
DOC> WHERE job_name like 'UTL_RECOMP_SLAVE_%';
DOC>#
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
TIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMP_TIMESTAMP UTLRP_END 2022-09-15 11:27:46
DOC> The following query reports the number of invalid objects.
DOC>
DOC> If the number is higher than expected, please examine the error
DOC> messages reported with each object (using SHOW ERRORS) to see if they
DOC> point to system misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before attempting to recompile these objects.
DOC>#
OBJECTS WITH ERRORS
-------------------
3
DOC> The following query reports the number of exceptions caught during
DOC> recompilation. If this number is non-zero, please query the error
DOC> messages in the table UTL_RECOMP_ERRORS to see if any of these errors
DOC> are due to misconfiguration or resource constraints that must be
DOC> fixed before objects can compile successfully.
DOC> Note: Typical compilation errors (due to coding errors) are not
DOC> logged into this table: they go into DBA_ERRORS instead.
DOC>#
ERRORS DURING RECOMPILATION
---------------------------
0
Function created.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Function dropped.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> shutdown immediatePluggable Database closed.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Version 19.14.0.0.0
D:\Oracle19c\OPatch>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Thu Sep 15 11:28:27 2022
Version 19.14.0.0.0
Copyright (c) 1982, 2021, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Version 19.14.0.0.0
SQL> shutdown immediate
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL>
That’s all folks. My PDB SCT has 3 objects in error and they are custom objects created by us & not anymore required for the application.
I hope this gives a fair about how to rollback an applied patch from Oracle database. As my database is pretty small with limited number of objects, I didn’t face any issues. This may not be the case when you are dealing with a huge PRODUCTION database. Insure as many backups are taken prior you rollback a PRODUCTION instance.
Oracle developer Forms version 10g is still used. Used by Oracle for their E-Business Suite & they will continue using this obsolete, unstable version until the day EBS is discontinued. So, let us see how to make the best out of what is available.
One of the major nuisances a developer (definitely) will come across while using this obsolete version of Oracle Developer on Windows 7 or later versions of Microsoft OS is, opening a module that has underlying database level objects changed (procedures/functions/packages), this IDE crashes without generating any error logs. Simple as it is. This could completely cripple the developer, especially when rapid developments miss to document the changes.
Is it possible to open FMB files without being connected to database? it is another BIG NO NO. Developer 10G will crash immediately incase if you try to open an FMB file that has database objects referred. So what is the next possible solution?
Well there is a solution that is dirty, having to install Oracle Forms Developer 12c (12.2.1.4). Just install the suite as standalone without Weblogic. This version is fault tolerant and will not try to validate the database level object calls & crash. By this, you can verify, compile and see what objects were changed, non-existing etcetera.
Oh yes, make sure you have copied your source FMB files to a new folder prior opening them with Forms Developer 12c!. Always remember, Oracle EBS R12 only compiles FMB files created using Oracle forms 10g. You could lose your original files forever if you forgot to do that.
Here is an excellent article explains how to install standalone Oracle Forms 12c.
Well, Oracle hardly fixes many errors for Windows OS. They “successfully” inherit bugs in latest versions, mostly because not many businesses are hosting Oracle products on Windows? A poll conducted by https://oracle-base.com reveals just 8% Windows OS share for hosting Oracle products! Interested? read details here
We recently migrated to 19c (19.14) & one of our 3rd party solutions needed to create a Linked Server connection to this instance from MS SQL database. Although 11g client could successfully connect to 19c, I decided to go with the 19c client, that looked less challenging to configure. Installed the client, and tried to install Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server component as additional feature and nightmare started. Software was getting installed, however failing when configuring it.
As the GUI didn’t produce much details about what went wrong, I decided to try configuring it from command line after referring Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server installation documents on Oracle site.
C:\Windows\system32>C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\bin\runConfig.bat ORACLE_HOME=C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1 MODE=perform ACTION=configure RERUN=true
C:\Windows\system32>REM Copyright (c) 2003, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
C:\Windows\system32>REM All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>SET PATH=C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin;C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\orant\bin;C:\Oracle\19c\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\orant\jdk\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin;C:\Users\rajesh.RTHAMPI\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\lib
C:\Windows\system32>"C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\jdk\jre\bin\java" -classpath "C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\OraInstaller.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\OraInstallerNet.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\xmlparserv2.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\srvm.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\emCfg.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\share.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\ojmisc.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\xml.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\OraCheckPoint.jar;C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui\jlib\OraPrereq.jar" oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicRunConfig C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\oui ORACLE_HOME=C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1 MODE=perform ACTION=configure RERUN=true
perform - mode is starting for action: configure
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.config.common.MTSInternalPlugIn invoke
INFO: MTSInternalPlugIn: ... adding </ouiinternal>
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.commons.util.FileUtils changeUnixFilePermissions
INFO: Not changing the permissions of file \configTools_2022-04-15_07-20-46PM.log, because current platform is not unix.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn invoke
INFO: Executing MTS
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn invoke
INFO: Command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c call C:\app\oracle\product\19.0.0\client_1\bin\oramtsctl.exe -new -internal
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn.handleProcess() entered.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: getting configAssistantParmas.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: checking secretArguments.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: No arguments to pass to stdin
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: starting read loop.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: Skipping line: Service is being created.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: End of argument passing to stdin
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
INFO: Skipping line: Service creation failed.
Apr 15, 2022 7:20:46 PM oracle.install.driver.oui.config.GenericInternalPlugIn handleProcess
Then came the message that said what went wrong
INFO: Skipping line: WSE-00008: Unsupported Oracle home type.
I found a solution immediately there after on stackoverflow. This answer discusses about the registry values that could cause the installation issues for Oracle client version 12.x & quickly I tried the same, and the configuration completed successfully.
So here is how to address the problem. Please make sure that you will take a backup of Windows Registry prior attempting to manually modify the values. A corrupt registry might force you to re-install Windows.
As we could see here, ORACLE_HOME_TYPE after a default install doesn’t have a value, failing MTS in my case. As I was trying to configure the Oracle client, expected value was “2” and for the Database, the value should be “1”
Modify key & exit registry editor.
Try to configure MTS once again from the command prompt. This time configurations must complete successfully!
In the past I had couple of opportunities to work with firms those specialize in Small to Medium scale business solutions built on top of Microsoft SQL Database technology. Much of such opportunities turned in to 100% futile as the vendors firmly believed the “Database” was a customer’s responsibility & insuring performance was solely at customer’s dispersal. I will get back to the subject after a brief introduction to how things go all the way wrong with these partners.
Opportunity#1
We were pretty happy with the cost effective ERP Suite & just prior signing the contract, question about who will setup and configure the Database(technology) came up. The solution provider was quick to respond with “Database maintenance is your part, so as it is mentioned in the draft contract”. Agreeing to the maintenance part, that is insuring the availability and backing up the data, we repeated the question who will “setup” the database and parameterize it for best performance, as their ERP Suite was replacing something really huge & users will expect the same slick and quick responses from the new system.
The vendor was so confused & told us few things like below:
There is nothing to configure
Microsoft SQL Database is not like Oracle, you don’t need to worry about anything. Just install it and forget it. Server takes care of it (heeheehee)
Just take a backup
Nothing to configure about memory. You got 32GB memory right? more than enough. If needed we can always add more memory
Yes, you can even install the database on your Windows XP machine and we think the latest Windows server is 2013 (Not exaggerated, we have an email with Windows Server 2013 mentioned in the supported OS list)
With each passing moment, they started getting agitated and the Project Manager from their end started asking questions like “We are a solution developer, why do you expect us to know “everything” about database?”. We had to tell them they don’t know anything about the database technology on top of what they design and develop their entire solution.
They lost the opportunity, which grew to approximately 1 million USD project gradually, using Oracle technologies (the worst blunder they made was “All you need a single license for the database as our application connects to database as same user for all modules.”)
Opportunity#2
A bit different scenario. This time the vendor was smarter. In order to impress us, they have designed the database to look so large, that it sized more than 25-30GB(more than 70% dedicated to Transaction Logs) before the solution was even launched. This company had a pretty wrong idea about tables and views. To “read faster” all their tables had all the columns those were required by their solution. In addition much of their views were having more than 200+ columns and many dozen inline queries to fetch additional data, making a simple query painfully slow.
On top of it, they implemented an always open URL (Obviously, keeping it open is “Your” (customer) responsibility) for processing some data.
Every other time, whenever we pointed out the difficulties with fetching data from their tables and views for custom reporting, we were given answers those should not be quoted here.
We terminated the contract after completing one (painful) year.
So, the question is, Should you know your database technology?
Much of the Prime time database technologies are pre-configured to a certain extend & a developer as a single individual may not be too interested to ponder deep into the available provisions to set it up the instance for optimized performances, mainly because everything works from the development machine, for the “development” perspectives.
Well, this is not the case when a proper business solution with commercial intend is developed based on a particular database technology. The software vendor have to understand the database technology they are targeting for their business solution to such an extended that, their product could benefit the customer in terms of continued availability and deliver insure optimized performances.
So, how to size and parameterize the database for optimized performances? This requires an experienced DBA/team to assist you with these fine tuning and parameterization activities. While Oracle database fine tuning and parameterization possibilities far more stretched than Microsoft SQL Server, you have the ease of using a GUI tool for the later, that helps you to setup many optimization parameters without the help of a DBA. MySQL also comes with a beautiful GUI manager for much of the configurations. However, just having some wonderful tools alone do not help you to achieve the maximum performance! One must know what and how to configure the database and OS specific parameters to get the maximum through output from the database technology. Yes, you need an experienced DBA or a team of DBAs to achieve this & I believe, for a successful software, a software developer must invest adequate efforts and funds in this sector with highest priority, may much before they start designing their solution!
An example case, we had our Oracle database 10g instance set with 2GB memory for SGA and 1GB for PGA for almost 4-5 years by our part-time DBA, while the server had another 40GB memory to spare. Our ERP (Oracle EBS R12) lagged, stuttered for this entire period just because he never attempted to fine tune the instance once after the implementers handed it over to us. His last excuse was “So, everything was working, why we have to trouble something that is working fine”. We terminated his contract. Our new partner setup the instance with highest possible SGA/PGA combinations and made a dozen parameterizations based on the OS specifications. It was followed by internal team introducing HugePages on Linux environment & we never looked back. Well, it took us some time to get there though to “find a right partner to work with”.
Majority of the places, wherever I were asked to investigate the poor performances (especially Microsoft SQL Server), noticed that the database was installed using the defaults and the only one maintenance activity for the instance is limited to full database backup daily. None of the maintenance possibilities like automating the indexing or statistics gatherings were implemented, making the solutions to lag and painful over a period of time.
While vendors like those I have introduced in the very beginning of the article would easily escape their responsibility by stating “database maintenance is your responsibility”, as a developer and as “NOT A Certified DBA” I will argue that.
I remember another interesting scenario when the vendor was asked which edition of the database should be installed for their solution. Initially struggling with release numbers and later making statements like “Enterprise edition will have more features” and failing to list few features never landed this vendor in a very bad light. They completely ignored the fact that we were a business that was already using software solutions like Oracle Applications & never thought of answering questions related to database.
A thorough study must be done by the solution developer to identify the best edition of database (Enterprise, Standard or Express) that is suitable for the customer. This is especially important when a solution with generic nature is adapted by businesses of different sizes. A software solution developer must understand that, every business tries to limit the investment for software implementations and unnecessary licensing costs by suggesting a wrong edition of database technology could force the customer to reject their product altogether and discard the project.
I’ve started my developing career with dBASE3 (Without knowing much about it) & last 20 years, worked with different database technologies & as a core application developer, strongly believe that, the developer MUST know many things about the database technology, based on which the targeted solution is being developed. As an individual I might be pardoned, however as a software vendor, I might lose wonderful opportunities just by not knowing enough about the database technology that’s the core of my business application!
So what you think, should I know my database technology?
This article was initially posted with my LinkedIn account.
Our business website uses WordPress. We have a theme bought from the market place and Elementor for page designs. The whole setup costed us something below 200$ & we are happy with the way the site delivers all our needs (not forgetting dozens of plugins that we use for basic features)
Recently we noticed “Elementor” throwing few errors while the pages were getting loaded. Errors were like “Deprecated: _register_skins is deprecated since version“. A quick Google search landed us on this discussion & rolled back Elementor to a previous version as suggested by one of the users and expected no further issues.
We were wrong. We started getting serious issues related to Jetpack, a plugin that is provided by “Automatic”, WordPress’s own repository. Our pages started showing some weird messages while loading and we were completely denied WordPress Admin page access. Our hosting company renamed the plugin folder & we were able to log on and disable Jetpack plugin, which was not recommended by many.
Much of the Jetpack related errors were like get_name(), get_title(),get_description(),get_long_description(),get_features(),get_pricing_for_ui(),get_manage_url() should not be abstract in & Warning: Cannot modify header information…
Jetpack error(s)
Then I remembered about a PHP related warning I have noticed during the last admin panel visit. WordPress was recommending PHP upgrade as they were in the process of stop supporting PHP 5.x versions. So I approached our hosting & asked them to upgrade the available PHP options for us. Once after they installed the latest available versions, we switched to PHP 7.4 (7.3 is deprecated already) from 5.6 . Proceeded with enabling Jetpack and upgraded Elementor to latest.
Everything started working as expected. So if you started facing Elementor or Jetpack related errors all of a sudden, before breaking your head anywhere else, check the version of PHP & give a try by upgrading it to one of the not deprecated versions.
