Ebs 12.1.1 lay down file system

Hi,
I want to lay down ebs 12.1.1 in my existing db 11.1.0.6 wk 32 bit server 2008, the process hangs at 53% of upgrade. I get the message:
RW-50004: Error codee received when running external process. Check log file for details. Running APPL_TOP Install
Driver for PROD instance
I checked the log file:
[APPLY PHASE]
AutoConfig could not successfully execute the following scripts:
Directory: C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\5.8.3\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\5.8.3\lib -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\site\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\perl\site\5.8.3\lib -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\au\12.0.0\perl -I C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\Apache\Apache\mod_perl\site\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\appsutil\clone
ouicli.pl INSTE8_APPLY -1
AutoConfig is exiting with status 1
RC-50013: Fatal: Instantiate driver did not complete successfully.
C:\oracle\PROD\apps\tech_st\10.1.3\appsutil\driver\regclone.drv
Please any suggestion.
Thanks,
Cea

Hussein,
I get an error on applying patch 7461070:
ORACLE RDBMS Version 10.1.0.5.0
Oracle Reports Version 10.1.2
Oracle Applications Release 12
Current product is #
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#LIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#STLIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
Current product is #
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#LIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#STLIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
Current product is
adrelink: Warning: not setting
L+===========================================================================+
LIB
since
$+===========================================================================+
_TOP/lib/+====================================================================
=======+st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
adrelink: Warning: not setting
L+===========================================================================+
STLIB
since
$+===========================================================================+
_TOP/lib/+====================================================================
=======+st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
Current product is #
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#LIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
adrelink: Warning: not setting L#STLIB
since 1_TOP/lib/#st.lib does not exist
or cannot be read.
adrelink: Warning: Product "BEGIN" is listed as an Oracle Applications
Product or as a Custom Product, but BEGIN_TOP is not set.
ADREBASE is complete.
You should check the file
C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\admin\PROD_wk8ebs\log\adrebase.log
for errors.
Copy DLLs of ALR to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/alr/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of AP to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ap/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of AR to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ar/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of BOM to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/bom/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of CRP to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/crp/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of DT to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/dt/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of ENG to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/eng/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of FA to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/fa/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of FF to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ff/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of FND to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of GL to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/gl/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of INV to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/inv/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of MRP to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/mrp/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of GMA to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/gma/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of PAY to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/pay/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of PO to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/po/12.0.0/bin
Copy DLLs of WIP to C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/wip/12.0.0/bin
Line-wrapping log file for readability ...
Done line-wrapping log file.
Original copy is C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/admin/PROD/log/adrelink.lsv
New copy is C:/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/admin/PROD/log/adrelink.log
An error occurred while relinking application programs.
Continue as if it were successful [No] :
Any sugg. please.
Thanks a lot.
Cea

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How do I use a NAS file system attached to my router to store iTunes purchases?

We have four Windows devices networked in our house. They all run iTunes with the same Apple ID so when any one of them has iTunes running, we can see that computer on our Apple TV. Two run Windows XP, one runs Vista Business, and the newest runs Windows 7. Upgrading all to the same Windows software is out of the question. Our NAS is hung on an "off warranty" Linksys E3000 router which communicates via USB with a 1TB NTFS formatted Western Digital hard drive. Our plan when we set up this little network, not cheaply, in our 1939 baloon construction tank of a house, was to build our library of digital images, music, and video primarily on that device. It supports a variant of Windows streaming support, but poorly. The best streaming support for our environment seems to be our ethernet connected Apple TV which is hung off the big TV in our family room, and has access to the surround sound "Home Theater" in that room. We've incrementally built up collections of photos, digitized music, and most recently educational materialsd, podcasts, etc. which threaten storage limits on a couple of default C: drives on these windows systems. iTunes, before the latest upgrades, gave us some feedback on the file system connections it established without going to the properties of the individual files, but the latest one has yet to be figured out. MP3's and photos behave fairly well, including the recently available connection between Adobe software and iTunes which magically appeared, allowing JPEG files indexed by Adobe Photoshop Elements running on the two fastest computers to show up under control on the Apple TV attached 56' Samsung screen!
Problems arose when we started trying to set things up so that purchases downloaded from the iTunes store ended up directly on the NAS, and when things downloaded to a specific iTunes library on one of the Windows boxes caused storage "issues" on that box. A bigger problem looming in the immediate future is the "housecleaning" effort which is part of my set of "new years resolutions." How do I get control of all of my collections and merge them on the NAS without duplicate files, or when, for example, we have .ACC and .MP3 versions, only the required "best" option for the specific piece of music becomes a candidate for streaming?
I envission this consolidation effort as a "once in a lifetime" effort. I'm 70, my wife is 68 and not as "technical" as I am, so documented procedures will be required.
I plan to keep this thread updated with progress and questions as this project proceeds. Links to "how to" experiences which are well documented, etc. may be appreciated by those who follow it. I plan to post progress reports and detailed issues going forward. Please help?

Step 1 - by trial and error...
So far, I have been able to create physical files containing MP3 and JPG on the NAS using the Windows XP systems to copy from shared locations on the Vista and Win7 boxes. This process has been aided by the use of a 600 GB SATA 2 capable hard drive enclosure. I first attach to Win 7 or Win Vista and reboot to see the local drive spaces formatted on the portable device. Then I copy files from the user's private directories to the public drive space. When the portable drive is wired to an XP box, I can use Windows to move the files from the portable device to the NAS without any of the more advanced file attributes being copied to the NAS. Once the files are on the NAS, I can add the new folder(s) to iTunes on any of the computers and voila, the data becomes sharable via iTunes. So far, this works for anything that I have completely purchased, or for MP3's I made from the AIC files created when I purchased alblums via iTunes.
I have three huge boxes full of vynl records I've accumulated. The ones that I've successfully digitized via a turntable attached to the sound card on one of my computers and third party software, have found their way to the NAS after being imported into iTunes and using it to bring down available album art work. In general I've been reasonably well pleased with the sound quality of digital MP3 files created this way, but the software I've been using sometimes has serious problems automatically separating individual songs from the album tracks and re-converting "one at a time" isn't very efficient.

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