Has anyone ever seen this? I am running Oracle 10.2.0.3. I have 2
Oracle homes on this AIX server. When I run opatch lsinventory it works
find on one of them, but fails on the other. Any ideas?



opatch lsinventory

Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.3.2



Oracle interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.3.2

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Oracle Home : /opt/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0.3/db_1

Central Inventory : /opt/app/oracle/oraInventory

from : /etc/oraInst.loc

OPatch version : 10.2.0.3.2

OUI version : 10.2.0.3.0

OUI location : /opt/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0.3/db_1/oui

Log file location :
/opt/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0.3/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch20
08-04-30_12-23-10PM.log



List of Homes on this system:



Home name= OUIHome1, Location=
"/opt/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1"

Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given
Oracle Home.

Possible causes are:

Oracle Home dir. path does not exist in Central Inventory

Oracle Home is a symbolic link

Oracle Home inventory is corrupted

LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory::load() gets null
oracleHomeInfo



OPatch failed with error code 73



Jeremy Schleicher

ERP Database Administrator

Florida State University




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