Manual Instance removal on XP

[Tim V.]

I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the process
hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in la-la land
and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the software hoping
that the instance would go with it. No such luck

I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal of
the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there were some
"legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I tried to remove
them several times thinking one might be dependant on the other. no luck.

The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system won't
let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.

I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so much
junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.

Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the registry?

Thanks,

--
Tim.

"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

[Gert van der Kooij]

In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Tim
V. (ts*************@yahoo.com) says...

I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the process
hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in la-la land
and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the software hoping
that the instance would go with it. No such luck

I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal of
the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there were some
"legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I tried to remove
them several times thinking one might be dependant on the other. no luck.

The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system won't
let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.

I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so much
junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.

Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the registry?

Thanks,

You probably need to remove the services which you can do with the sc
utility.
Use 'sc query|find /I "DB2" ' to get the service names and
'sc delete <service name>' to delete the services.

[Tim V.]

Gert van der Kooij <ge**@invalid.nl> wrote in
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In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Tim
V. (ts*************@yahoo.com) says...

I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the
process hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in
la-la land and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the
software hoping that the instance would go with it. No such luck

I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal
of the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there
were some "legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I
tried to remove them several times thinking one might be dependant on
the other. no luck.

The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system
won't let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.

I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so
much junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.

Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the
registry?

Thanks,

You probably need to remove the services which you can do with the sc
utility.
Use 'sc query|find /I "DB2" ' to get the service names and
'sc delete <service name>' to delete the services.

Doesnt' work. When I do a sc query, it doesn't show anything related
to DB2. When I click on the 'services' icon, it shows
'DB2 - DB2-0' and 'DB2 - DB2CTLSV-0' as a service.

The 'services.msc' program appears to be looking at something different
than 'sc'.

This is a handy suggestion for other things, though!

--
Tim.

"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

[Tim V.]

Gert van der Kooij <ge**@invalid.nl> wrote in
news:MP************************@news.xs4all.nl:

In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Tim
V. (ts*************@yahoo.com) says...

I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the
process hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in
la-la land and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the
software hoping that the instance would go with it. No such luck

I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal
of the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there
were some "legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I
tried to remove them several times thinking one might be dependant on
the other. no luck.

The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system
won't let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.

I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so
much junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.

Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the
registry?

Thanks,

You probably need to remove the services which you can do with the sc
utility.
Use 'sc query|find /I "DB2" ' to get the service names and
'sc delete <service name>' to delete the services.

I reinstalled and did the 'sc query' again. It shows the typical DB2
stuff you would expect, but no 'DB2 - DB2-0' instance. It is apparently
in a weird state. Neither installed or removed.

--
Tim.

"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve
neither
liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

[Rhino]

"Tim V." <ts*************@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Gert van der Kooij <ge**@invalid.nl> wrote in
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In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Tim
V. (ts*************@yahoo.com) says...

I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the
process hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in
la-la land and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the
software hoping that the instance would go with it. No such luck

I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal
of the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there
were some "legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I
tried to remove them several times thinking one might be dependant on
the other. no luck.

The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system
won't let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.

I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so
much junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.

Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the
registry?

Thanks,

You probably need to remove the services which you can do with the sc
utility.
Use 'sc query|find /I "DB2" ' to get the service names and
'sc delete <service name>' to delete the services.

I reinstalled and did the 'sc query' again. It shows the typical DB2
stuff you would expect, but no 'DB2 - DB2-0' instance. It is apparently
in a weird state. Neither installed or removed.

When I first installed DB2 V8, I installed it over an existing DB2 V7.2. The
install seemed clean at first but several things turned out to not be
working well. I started fixing them and was making slow progress on some of
them but some problems were very stubborn. I talked to a friend and he told
me had always had much better results if he first removed the old instance
entirely, then did a fresh install on a system that had no DB2 (other than
the databases) on it. It worked a LOT better that way.

Assuming you can figure out how to remove the rest of DB2, aside from the
actual databases, I think you will find that works best.

Rhino

[JS]

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"Tim V." <ts*************@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Gert van der Kooij <ge**@invalid.nl> wrote in
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In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Tim
V. (ts*************@yahoo.com) says...
> I was doing a FP8 (8.2) update on my db (Win XP 8.1 fp3) and the
> process hung (3 hours - no activity) at the end. The system was in
> la-la land and the instance wouldn't start, so I removed the all the
> software hoping that the instance would go with it. No such luck
>
> I tried a reistall, but no luck. I then tried to do a manual removal
> of the instance via regedit. I got most of the entries, but there
> were some "legacy" entries that couldn't be changed or removed. I
> tried to remove them several times thinking one might be dependant on
> the other. no luck.
>
> The registry is kludged as far as the DB2 instance goes. The system
> won't let me create an instance with a name other than 'DB2', either.
>
> I've done a web search for manually removing it, but it picked up so
> much junk, it'll be days to wade thru them all.
>
> Any ideas on how to manually remove all traces of DB2 from the
> registry?
>
> Thanks,
>
>

You probably need to remove the services which you can do with the sc
utility.
Use 'sc query|find /I "DB2" ' to get the service names and
'sc delete <service name>' to delete the services.

I reinstalled and did the 'sc query' again. It shows the typical DB2
stuff you would expect, but no 'DB2 - DB2-0' instance. It is apparently
in a weird state. Neither installed or removed.

When I first installed DB2 V8, I installed it over an existing DB2 V7.2. The
install seemed clean at first but several things turned out to not be
working well. I started fixing them and was making slow progress on some of
them but some problems were very stubborn. I talked to a friend and he told
me had always had much better results if he first removed the old instance
entirely, then did a fresh install on a system that had no DB2 (other than
the databases) on it. It worked a LOT better that way.

Assuming you can figure out how to remove the rest of DB2, aside from the
actual databases, I think you will find that works best.

Rhino

try the FORCE_UNINSTALL method
go to v8 help site and search on uninstalling db2,document reference # 1104569