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OPatch picks up incorrect Home from OraInst.loc: Code 73

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Oracle’s OPatch utility is used for applying interim CPU patches to maintain the security of your RDBMS. OPatch uses the OraInst.loc file located in /etc or /var/opt/oracle depending on your OS to determine what needs to be applied during patch installation. In this article we will cover the error which would be received if your OraInst.loc file points at the incorrect home or contains invalid information.

1. Logon to your Oracle database server as the Oracle software owner.

2. Change directories to the location of your CPU patch and unzip the file.

unzip p9119226_10204_.zip

3. Change directories into your unzipped patch directory which is named with the CPU number you are applying.

cd 9119226
OPatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate

4. You receive the following error or similar error during installation.

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.9
Copyright (c) 2009, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Oracle Home : /app/oracle/product/10.2.0
Central Inventory : /app/agent10g
from : /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 10.2.0.4.9
OUI version : 10.2.0.4.0
OUI location : /app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oui
Log file location : /app/oracle/product/10.2.0/cfgtoollogs/OPatch/OPatch2010
-02-20_14-48-27PM.log

Patch history file:
/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/cfgtoollogs/OPatch/OPatch_history.txt

List of Homes on this system:

Home name= agent10g, Location= “/app/agent10g”
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

5. As seen by the error message, the OPatch utility is picking up the incorrect inventory location from the file OraInst.loc. Open up the OraInst.loc file, correct the location of your inventory directory, and re-execute OPatch.

Larry J Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
oracle@allcompute.com
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OPatch using 64 bit linux CPU on a 32 bit linux Oracle home: Code 73

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Oracle’s OPatch utility is used for applying interim CPU patches to maintain the security of your RDBMS. When installing any oracle patch set it is important to know the bit count of your current Oracle binaries. In this article we will cover the error which would be received when you attempt to install a 64 bit patch on a 32 bit Oracle home

1. Logon to your Oracle database server as the Oracle software owner.

2. Change directories to the location of your CPU patch and unzip the file.

unzip p9119226_10204_.zip

3. Change directories into your unzipped patch directory which is named with the CPU number you are applying.

cd 9119226
OPatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate

4. You are under the assumption that you have a 64 bit Oracle home which is platform ID 226. However, you’re true Oracle home is 32 bit or platform ID 46. The following error message is the result.

OPatch2010-03-02_02-29-19AM.log:Platform IDs supported by patch are: 226 Patch (
8836667 ) is not applicable on current platform.
OPatch2010-03-02_02-29-19AM.log:Platform IDs supported by patch are: 226 Patch (
8836684 ) is not applicable on current platform.
ISM :> vi OPatch2010-03-02_02-29-19AM.log
Platform ID needed is : 46
Platform IDs supported by patch are: 226 Patch ( 9173253 ) is not applicable on
current platform.
Platform ID needed is : 46
Platform IDs supported by patch are: 226
SEVERE:OUI-67073:UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check
“CheckPatchApplicableOnCurrentPlatform” failed.
INFO:Finishing UtilSession at Sun Feb 28 02:33:02 EDT 2010
INFO:Stack Description: java.lang.RuntimeException: Prerequisite check
“CheckPatchApplicableOnCurrentPlatform” failed.
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.OPatchSessionHelper.runApplyPrereqs(OPatchSession
Helper.java:4173)
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.OPatchutil.NApply.process(NApply.java:2057)
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.OPatchutil.OUSession.napply(OUSession.java:868)
INFO:StackTrace: sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
INFO:StackTrace:
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
INFO:StackTrace: sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMetho
dAccessorImpl.java:25)
INFO:StackTrace: java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.UtilSession.process(UtilSession.java:313)
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.OPatchSession.main(OPatchSession.java:1993)
INFO:StackTrace: oracle.OPatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:630)

5. The solution is to logon to www.metalink.oracle.com and download the correct bit version for your platform.

Larry Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
oracle@allcompute.com
www.allcompute.com

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OPatch platform id 46-linux not 59-hpux: Code 73

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Oracle’s OPatch utility is used for applying interim CPU patches to maintain the security of your RDBMS. Oracle Corporation uses a numbering system for its patch sets which do not change across differing OS layers. Though the patch number would be the same for differing operating systems, the actual binary files are specific. In this article we will cover the error which would be received when you attempt to apply a CPU for HPUX on a LINUX OS.

1. Logon to your Oracle database server as the Oracle software owner.

2. Change directories to the location of your CPU patch and unzip the file.

unzip p9119226_10204_.zip

3. Change directories into your unzipped patch directory which is named with the CPU number you are applying.

cd 9119226
OPatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate

4. You receive the following error.

Platform ID needed is : 46
Platform IDs supported by patch are: 59 Patch ( 9173253 ) is not applicable on
current platform.
Platform ID needed is : 46
Platform IDs supported by patch are: 59
UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check “CheckPatchApplicableOnCurrentPlatform”
failed.

OPatch failed with error code 73

5. The error produced specifies the current platform ID is 46 – LINUX, however you are attempting to apply a CPU for platform ID of 59 –HPUX.

6. The resolution is to download the correct patch from www.metalink.oracle.com for your specific OS.

Larry Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
oracle@allcompute.com
www.allcompute.com