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Opatch failure due to "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" as Remote registry service holding files (Doc ID 2462952.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 and later
Generic Windows

Symptoms

Opatch was failing as some of executables are active .

Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
The details are:

Following files are active :
<DB_HOME>\bin\oraocr11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\oraocrb11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\oraocrutl11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\orantcp11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\orasql11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\oranls11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\orasnls11.dll
<DB_HOME>\bin\oraasmclnt11.dll
[Sep 18, 2018 8:24:11 PM] [SEVERE] OUI-67073:UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
[Sep 18, 2018 8:24:11 PM] [INFO] Finishing UtilSession at Tue Sep 18 20:24:11 CDT 2018
[Sep 18, 2018 8:24:11 PM] [INFO] Log file location: <DB_HOME>\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2018-09-18_20-24-06PM_1.log
[Sep 18, 2018 8:24:11 PM] [INFO] Stack Description: java.lang.RuntimeException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
at oracle.opatch.OPatchSessionHelper.runRollbackPrereqs(OPatchSessionHelper.java:5155)
at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.NRollback.legacy_process(NRollback.java:788)
at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.NRollback.process(NRollback.java:246)
at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.OUSession.nrollback(OUSession.java:1116)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at oracle.opatch.UtilSession.process(UtilSession.java:359)
at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.process(OPatchSession.java:2670)
at oracle.opatch.OPatch.process(OPatch.java:811)
at oracle.opatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:861)
Caused by: oracle.opatch.PrereqFailedException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.

 

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