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Cannot delete oci.dll upon uninstallation of Oracle 11.1.0.6

edited Jan 3, 2011 12:37AM in Database Install/Upgrade/Opatch (MOSC) 6 commentsAnswered
 Hello,

We install Oracle 11.1.0.6 using the process of Oracle server cloning. Upon uninstallation of  Oracle, i always find that oci.dll is locked by some process in windows.
I tried figuring out which process was locking this by making use of process explorer. The oci.dll was in use under svchost.exe. 

svchost.exe is a hosting process for windows services. There were a number of services hosted under svchost.exe
I started stopping each of those services one after the other. oci.dll could only be deleted when each of those services hosted under svchost.exe was stopped.

However this is not a practical solution for me. I have to do this cleanup as part of my uninstallation process.

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