Hi, everyone,
I am having difficulty deinstalling Oracle 19c 64 bit Client from an EC2 AWS Cloud Windows Server 2019. Universal deinstall runs and reports the following error in deinstal***.err file:
<Start of Error>
####################### DEINSTALL CLEAN OPERATION SUMMARY #######################
Oracle Universal Installer cleanup completed with errors.
Review the permissions and contents of 'C:\oracle' on nodes(s) 'VCAOHV1020117Q'.
If there are no Oracle home(s) associated with 'C:\oracle', manually delete 'C:\oracle' and its contents.
Oracle deinstall tool successfully cleaned up temporary directories.
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oracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilNativeException: PermissionDenied
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiip.osd.win32.OiipwWin32NativeCalls.RegCreateKey(Native Method)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiip.osd.win32.OiipwWin32NativeCalls.RegCreateKey(OiipwWin32NativeCalls.java:477)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.core.CheckInstall.createOracleKey(CheckInstall.java:1289)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.core.CheckInstall.checkConfig(CheckInstall.java:1266)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.wrapper.Deinstall.callCheckImpl(Deinstall.java:1449)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.wrapper.Deinstall.main(Deinstall.java:732)
Logger.addFileHandler:Error while adding file handler - C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\Cleanup2022-04-09_12-59-21PM.log
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\Cleanup2022-04-09_12-59-21PM.log (Access is denied)
<End of Error>
Funny...while adding this post i was able to "fix" it by simply remembering that cmd console needs to be run in Admin mode to execure \deinstal\deinstall.bat ;-). Decided to follow thru with this post and error in case anyone else makes same mistake.
Cheers,
Sergei Z