opatch and cpu 6864068 on Oracle 10.2.0.3 1

[4gandalf]

Greetings and salutations:

I'm trying to install patch 6864068 on Oracle 10.2.0.3 running on Linux 64-bit.
I'm using opatch 10.2.0.4.8. Patch 6864068 has multiple cpus inside it, each in a
seperate folder.

When I run the command: ./opatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate I get the
following message from opatch:

SEVERE:OPatch invoked as follows: 'napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate '
INFO:
Oracle Home : /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1
Central Inventory : /opt/oracle/oraInventory
from : /etc/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 10.2.0.4.8
OUI version : 10.2.0.3.0
OUI location : /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/oui
Log file location : /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2009-10-22_16-18-25PM.log

INFOatch history file: /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch_history.txt

INFO:Invoking utility "napply"
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/README.txt" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/auto_patch.pl" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/emdpatch.pl" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/opatch" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/opatch.bat" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/opatch.ini" in the patch directory.
INFO:Ignoring file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/opatch.pl" in the patch directory.
INFOatchObject:atchObject() Patch location is /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068
INFOatchObject::createPatchObject() Patch location is /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068
INFOatchObject::createPatchObject() patch location is /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068
SEVERE:OUI-67075:Failed to load the patch object. Possible causes are:
The specified path is not an interim Patch shiphome
Meta-data files are missing from the patch area
Patch location = /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068
Details = PatchObject constructor: Input file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068/etc/config/actions" or "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068/etc/config/inventory" does not exist.

SEVERE:OUI-67100:NApply could not load patch from location '/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068'
SEVERE:OUI-67073:UtilSession failed: PatchObject constructor: Input file "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068/etc/config/actions" or "/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1/OPatch/6864068/etc/config/inventory" does not exist.
INFO:Finishing UtilSession at Thu Oct 22 16:18:29 CDT 2009
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Opatch is looking for the "actions" and "inventory" files in the wrong place. The files are actually located under each cpu folder, for example cpu 6121183: /6864068/6121183/etc/config/

Until now opatch has worked great for me.

Your help in this is greatly appreciated.

 

[karluk]

It looks to me as if you ran opatch from the wrong directory. You should be running $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch, but before invoking opatch you should cd to the 6864068 directory in your CPU staging area. Quoting from the 6864068 readme doc:

Set your current directory to the directory where the patch is located and then run the OPatch utility by entering the following commands:

cd 6864068
opatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate

 

[karluk]

You don't actually say which directory you were in when you invoked opatch, but I infer you were in $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch because you ran it using a "./opatch" command.

 

[4gandalf]

Thank you Karluk for your reply.

Yes, I did indeed run opatch from its directory $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch. I didn't know that it was sensitive to where it is invoked.

Thanks again.