Unloading Oracle kernel extentions

[alav4]

I am helping the DBMS group upgrade Oracle on some test machines which requires new oracle kernel extentions. /etc/loadext -u /etc/<old_ext> unloads the old extentions then you can load the new extentions. Only when I run the unload I get &quot;Cannot unload old extention&quot;. Is there any way I can unload the old extention with out rebooting the box? Rebooting isn't a good option when we move this upgrade to production.

Thanks in advance.

 

[bjverzal]

Have you posted to the Oracle forum ?

 

[steenb]

hi alav
(h50):loadext

Oracle Kernel Extension Loader for AIX
Copyright (c) 1998,1999 Oracle Corporation


Usage: loadext <ctl_opt> [<kernex object>]

where ctl_opt can be any of:
-l : to load the kernel ext.(<kernex object>)
-u : to unload the kernel ext.(<kernex object>)
-q : to query the kernel ext.(<kernex object>)
-v : to show the kernel ext.(<kernex object>) version
-r : to show the currently running kernel ext.

(h50):
remember to stop all Oracle databases, otherwiser I dont think it will work
rgs SteenB