Problem:- While running opatch lsinventory, command fails with the below error:
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.6
Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1
Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory
from : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 11.2.0.3.6
OUI version : 11.2.0.4.0
Log file location : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2018-01-24_01-10-13AM_1.log
List of Homes on this system:
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 gets null oracleHomeInfo
OPatch failed with error code 73
Solution:-
cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
./attachHome.sh
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 21183 MB Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc
The inventory is located at /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oraInventory
'AttachHome' was successful.
[oracle@amo02ch:/mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/oui/bin ORA2CH] $ opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.6
Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1
Central Inventory : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oraInventory
from : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 11.2.0.3.6
OUI version : 11.2.0.4.0
Log file location : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2018-01-24_01-12-40AM_1.log
Lsinventory Output file location : /mnt/san01ch/vd001_v001/u01/app/oracle/product/112040/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/lsinv/lsinventory2018-01-24_01-12-40AM.txt
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Installed Top-level Products (1):
Oracle Database 11g 11.2.0.4.0
There are 1 product(s) installed in this Oracle Home.
Interim patches (1) :
Patch 18522509 : applied on Wed Mar 11 16:34:12 PDT 2015
Unique Patch ID: 17604597
Patch description: "Database Patch Set Update : 11.2.0.4.3 (18522509)"
Created on 30 Jun 2014, 08:14:42 hrs PST8PDT
Sub-patch 18031668; "Database Patch Set Update : 11.2.0.4.2 (18031668)"
Sub-patch 17478514; "Database Patch Set Update : 11.2.0.4.1 (17478514)"
Bugs fixed:
17752995, 17288409, 16392068, 17205719, 17811429, 17767676, 17614227
17040764, 17381384, 17754782, 17726838, 13364795, 17311728, 17389192
17006570, 17612828, 17284817, 17441661, 13853126, 17721717, 13645875
18203837, 17390431, 16542886, 16992075, 16043574, 17446237, 16863422
14565184, 17071721, 17610798, 17468141, 17786518, 17375354, 17397545
18203838, 16956380, 17478145, 16360112, 17235750, 17394950, 13866822
17478514, 17027426, 12905058, 14338435, 16268425, 13944971, 18247991
14458214, 16929165, 17265217, 13498382, 17786278, 17227277, 17546973
14054676, 17088068, 16314254, 17016369, 14602788, 17443671, 16228604
16837842, 17332800, 17393683, 13951456, 16315398, 18744139, 17186905
16850630, 17437634, 19049453, 17883081, 15861775, 17296856, 18277454
16399083, 16855292, 18018515, 10136473, 16472716, 17050888, 17865671
17325413, 14010183, 18554871, 17080436, 16613964, 17761775, 16721594
17588480, 17551709, 17344412, 18681862, 15979965, 13609098, 18139690
17501491, 17239687, 17752121, 17602269, 18203835, 17297939, 17313525
16731148, 17811456, 14133975, 17600719, 17385178, 17571306, 16450169
17655634, 18094246, 17892268, 17165204, 17011832, 17648596, 16785708
17477958, 16180763, 16220077, 17465741, 17174582, 18522509, 16069901
16285691, 17323222, 18180390, 17393915, 16875449, 18096714, 17238511
17596908, 17811438, 17811447, 18031668, 16912439, 18061914, 17622427
17545847, 16943711, 17082359, 17346671, 18996843, 14852021, 17783588
16618694, 17672719, 17614134, 17341326, 17546761, 17716305
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OPatch succeeded.
