If you are new to the oracle world, then understanding what oui, and opatch is, is a must. Central inventory is locked by another oui instance. The loaded inventory might not show correctly what you have in. Fatdba or oracle ant is an independent webblogsite. Oracle 12c opatch failed with error code 73 database. Opatch failed to locate central inventory the oracle dba. Force opatch to use nondefault inventory if different inventory is kept for each oracle installation, you will need to point opatch to different inventory at time of patching. Sometimes the command opatch lsinventory reports the error. The opatch version is not applicable for current oui version. The problem is because of the library file libclntsh.
Doyensys is a fast growing oracle technology based solutions company located in the us and offshore delivery centers in india. Oracle opatch failed with error code 73 helioss blog. One of the commands that come with this tool is lsinventory. Oracle does not officially sponsor, approve, or endorse this site or its content. Unfortunately they do not change version numbers in the oracle binaries, product banners and such though see mos 861152. All apps dba blog is the blog contributed by doyensys employees, with the view to share the knowledge out of their experience. Solution for opatch could not find oui based inventory in. If you ever get this error while running opatch, dont think that it is end of the world and you have to reinstall oracle. Few days back, i was applying opatch on one of the database residing on windows server. Oraclehomeinventory was not able to create a lock file in unix sometimes the command opatch lsinventory reports the error. A good dba must know when to use these tools, and for what operations. I tried it multiple times without any luck as everytime when i tried applying patch, i was getting below error. Prerequisite check checkactivefilesandexecutables failed.
The opatch version is not applicable for current oui. Even though attachhome was introduced with oui version 10. Patch id is null occurred when applying patch 9352179. Here are some common opatch locations included with the epm system of software. Inventory load failed opatch cannot load inventory for the given oracle home. Oracle psus patch set updates are referenced by their 5place version number. To verify what patches have been applied to an oracle home, or to find out additional information about the oracle home, use the opatch lsinventory command. Opatch failed to locate central inventory may 19, 2015 may 19, 2015 philipoconduin the following problem was caused by our recent migration, the inventory was pointing to a home that was no longer on the server. Oraclehomeinventory load gets null oraclehomeinfo info. Why do we need latest one oracle recommends to use that latest one so that there will not be any backward compatibility issue with opatch and cpupsu patches however i never got that. Purpose to provide a comprehnesive list of commonly used opatch notes. Opatch failed with error code 73 oracle dba sharing an. The experiences, test cases, views, and opinions expressed in this website are my own and does not reflect the views or opinions of my employer this site is independent of and does not represent oracle corporation in any way. Oui67161, oui67085, oui67047, oui67049, oui67048, oui67085 and oui6705 note 244241.
Either you can stop emctl using following command or kill the process which is holding the library file. This was due to some of the dll files related to oracle on. However, during patching, opatch utility may ask for an ocm response file. Opatch inventory curropted error lsinventorysession. That is why todays topic focuses on oui and opatch utilities. Opatch prerequisite check checkactivefilesandexecutables failed 140opatch opatch needs to modify files which are being used by some processes.
Oraclehomeinventory was not able to create a lock file, probably due to a previous failed opatch session. How to check which psu is installed on your database or. This post is to describe how to get latest opatch utility to apply patches on oracle database or grid home. Opatch is an oraclesupplied utility that assists you with the process of applying interim patches to oracles software and rolling back interim patches from oracles software. Search for opatch in windows there might be several folders with this name if you have installed oracle data access components odac more than once. Tracing oracle session to identify errors in query. Scope and application this is applicable to all levels of expertise for opatch. Oracle opatch prerequisite check checkactivefilesandexecutables failed oracle. To create ocmrf file opatch utility ships with a script file named emocmrsp which is used for creating a response file. Rawinventory gets null oraclehomeinfo dec 19, 2016 2. Oraclehomeinventory was not able to create a lock file, probably due to a failed opatch session. Is it possible to check or provide opatch version which you used. Rac, dataguard, golden gate,ebs suit, backups and restoration, shell scripts. Opatch cannot load inventory for the given oracle home.
Using the opatch lsinventory command to verify the patches. Command opatch lsinventory or opatch a pply reports below error. The following example shows sample output of the lsinventory command, which indicates that a. Your path to your opatch inventory cloud migration. If inventory does not match with with oracle home, the following errors may raise during opatch run. How to download and configure latest opatch utility to. Happy friday, oracle bloggers and blog followers alike. I face opatch failed with error code 73 error on my ebusiness suite r12. This chapter provides information on using opatch for these purposes. Did you know you can retrieve this type of info fr. Follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The loaded inventory might not show correctly what you have in the oracle home. Opatch failed with error code 115 general database. Open a command prompt and select the drive and path to your epmsystem11r1opatch location.