Product

Platform

Intel

Operating system

Windows 2000

Error

Tue Oct 29 03:00:03 2002 Error: pywintypes.api_error, (87, 'OpenProcess', 'The parameter is incorrect.'), <traceback object at 6c6ed0> traceback: Exception in process 3620, thread 1072

Traceback (innermost last):

File "C:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\Python\com\creo\araxi\database\BackupDatabase.py", line 396, in backupOracle

if arxprocess.ProcessNameExists( PPU_CHECK, computername ):

File "C:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\Python\arxprocess.py", line 154, in ProcessNameExists

procdict = EnumProcesses( computer )

File "C:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\Python\arxprocess.py", line 187, in EnumProcesses

name = pypsapi.GetProcessName( pid )

File "C:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\Python\com\creo\win32\pypsapi.py", line 87, in GetProcessName

hProcess = win32api.OpenProcess( win32con.PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | win32con.PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, pid )

pywintypes.api_error: (87, 'OpenProcess', 'The parameter is incorrect.')

Symptoms

Database backup fails with the error message shown. The error message can be found in the D:\Ora816\Creo\Logs\OracleBackupLogFile.log.

Cause

The script will crash with this error if any process has exited during the check.

Solution

Run OracleBackupManager to back up the database manually or wait until the next scheduled backup.

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

backup, oracle

Technical contact(s)

Stan Yoshida

Submitted by

Stan Yoshida

Date submitted

18 Dec 2002