Symptom
You are doing an upgrade of Oracle patches using the OPatch utility. The activity is running on Windows operating system environment.
> opatch apply "C:\sapcd\ORA10_PATCHBUNDLE_10205\PATCHBUN DLE10205P_22-10010776\16803782" ======================================================== GENERIC OPATCH VERSION - FOR USE IN SAP ENVIRONMENT ONLY ======================================================== Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.5.1 Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.5.1 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle Home : C:\oracle\ELY\102 Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory from : n/a OPatch version : 10.2.0.5.1 OUI version : 10.2.0.5.0 OUI location : C:\oracle\ELY\102\oui Log file location : C:\oracle\ELY\102\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch.log Patch history file: C:\oracle\ELY\102\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch_history.txt ApplySession applying interim patch '16803782' to OH 'C:\oracle\ELY\102' Running prerequisite checks... Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. The details are: Following files are active : C:\oracle\ELY\102\bin\oracle.exe C:\oracle\ELY\102\rdbms\admin\oracle.sym C:\oracle\ELY\102\bin\orajox10.dll C:\oracle\ELY\102\rdbms\mesg\oraus.msb C:\oracle\ELY\102\bin\orageneric10.dll ..... ....... ......... ..........
Out of sudden, below error coming out,
ApplySession failed during prerequisite checks: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. System intact, OPatch will not attempt to restore the system OPatch failed with error code = 74
Solution
Open the Windows Services program (from Start > search for services.msc). Look for Oracle services which are still running and do stop them! Once stopped, you can re-run the Oracle patches again.
