oracle>opatch lsinventory

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Oracle Home : /oracle/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
Oracle Home Inventory : /oracleitf/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/inventory
Central Inventory : /oracle/app/oracle/oraInventory
from : /etc/oraInst.loc
OUI location : /oracle/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/oui
OUI shared library : /oracleapp/oracle/product/9.2.0/oui/lib/aix/liboraInstaller.so
Java location : /oracle/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/jre/1.4.2/bin/java
Log file location : /oracleapp/oracle/product/9.2.0/.patch_storage//*.log

Creating log file "/oracle/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/.patch_storage/LsInventory__07-28-2011_11-35-43.log"

Result:

LsInventory: OPatch Exception while accessing O2O

OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR : An exception of type "OPatchException" has occurred:
OPatch Exception: OUI found no such ORACLE_HOME set in the environment
Can not get details for given Oracle Home
An exception occurs
null

There is no Interim Patch

OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR : An exception of type "OPatchException" has occurred:
Can not get a list of inventory on this home.

ERROR: OPatch failed because of Inventory problem.

Metalink如是说:

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 9.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

Running the command "opatch lsinventory" gives following error :-

LsInventory: OPatch Exception while accessing O2O
OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR : An exception of type "OPatchException" has occurred:
OPatch Exception:
OUI found no such ORACLE_HOME set in the environment
Can not get details for given Oracle Home
An exception occurs
null
There is no Interim Patch
OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR : An exception of type "OPatchException" has occurred:
Can not get a list of inventory on this home.

Cause

Trying to use a different name for oraInst.loc file.

opatch can understand only the name oraInst.loc for inventory pointer location file.

So it will not recognize other names for example oraInst.loc_oracle9i

In the above scenario there were two oraInst.loc files

1.oraInst.loc
2.oraInst.loc_oracle9i

Tried running opatch lsinventory using inventory pointer file oraInst.loc_oracle9i, but it caused the error since opatch can understand oraInst.loc only.

Solution

(1)As two files with same name can not reside in a single directory, keep different oraInst.loc files in different directories and maintain a record of it.

(2)Change inventory pointer location files name to oraInst.loc

% mv oraInst.loc_oracle9i oraInst.loc

(3) Set the ORACLE_HOME

(4)Now run opatch lsinventory -invPtrLoc with correct file name.
%opatch lsinventory -invPtrLoc