Tom,
Please, the windows users must be warned about this. I had helped a business last saturday about this issue. After some research, I found a reference that this "hotfix" (from Microsoft) could stop Oracle Services. Removing this "patch" this problem "disappear":
>Microsoft Security Patch KB835732 on MS Windows 2000 Server with ORACLE 8.1.6.0.
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>Environment:
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>ORACLE (Rel.8.1.6.0) on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server OS.
>
>We had just installed the latest security patches, issued by Microsoft last
>week (there were six of them), when we found out that our database instances
>wouldn't startup after the next OS reboot. By trial-and-error (uninstalling and
>reinstalling the patches one-by-one from Windows Update), we concluded that the
>patch causing the problem was the one numbered KB835732. We had to leave it
>back uninstalled in order to be able to use our database servers (so far, I was
>not able to find out what this could cause to our environment in terms of
>security...).
>
>Has anyone else met this problem? Does anybody know how to resolve this issue (
>if there is any resolution at all...)?
>
>Regards,
>P.Tsapralis,
>Greece.
>__________________
>Panos Tsapralis,
>Software Engineer,
>Athens, GREECE.
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>#2 04-20-04, 18:48
>tlael
>Slacker Join Date: Oct 2003
>Location: St.Louis,MO
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>See if you have any issues that may be affected by this update.
>Detailed information about security patch KB835732 is here.
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/se...n/MS04-011.mspx <code>
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>tlael
>
>#3 04-22-04, 13:50
>MikeDB
>Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004
>Location: London
>Posts: 1
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>Re: Microsoft Security Patch KB835732 on MS Windows 2000 Server with ORACLE 8.1.6.0.
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>Hi,
>
>we have Oracle 9i and the same thing happened, Oracle wouldn't start it
>returned the error "shared memory realm does not exist"
>
>Uninstalling it fixed the problem, other than that I have no solution
>
>regards,
>
>Mike
>
>#4 04-22-04, 16:22
>
>Same error
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>We have exactly the same issue on 8.1.6
>Symptoms we noticed were Oracle Service reports as "Starting" not started
>Oradim.exe continues to run indefinately.
>using svrmgrl to stop and start the Db made the db accessible. Killing oradim
>changed the Service status to Started (the above svrmgrl steps were required to
>mage it accessible though).
>I actually posed about this (not knowing the answer 2 days ago). The patch
>seems to be for Terminal Services. I had not installed terminal services and
>tried adding this and then reapllying the patch to see if it made any
>difference (it didn't) thank god this patch can be uninstalled some of them
>cannot!! Is there anything on msdn or microsoft or oracle sites about this?
>
>Oisin