Vince,
I have tried to request access to the customers portal using my customer's customer number, but someone from ESRi forwarded me to my local esri dealer, as they already told me it would happen. So that is off...
Did the update, and tried to create the service with sdeservice -o create.... but avail.
Marco,
I tried tthe Run as administrator, since I found a topic on the forum...no results.
So, as the things are going badly, this is how it is going to be:
Since the ArcGIS Desktop is here used as a base form some Utillity Extension, I will create a new empty gdb, create new SDE user and repository, and use the extensions tools to export/upgrade the data and then bulk load it back to the ArcSDE.
I do not see any other solution.
There is something very wrong in the way upgrades are ment to be performed, or in the software configuration that was asked from the extension manufacturer, or maybe in the position of the stars for the past two weeks that I have lost doing this. 🙂
I suspect that the Oracle client refuses connection to database, or ArcCatalog cannot connect to it, even though they are both x86.
I just give up, since I have an alternative...not a better one, but an usable one.
Thanks for your help guys, you were great.
Best regards.
Milos