Re: OPatch failed but inventory works

I posted a similar thread awhile back, subject was: symlinks/OUI. I'm curious if you have a similar history.

My oraInventory was restructured across this oui version boundary, apparently oraInventory was re-engineered as they went to v10:

installActions2005-11-01_09-31-58AM.log:The installer version is 2.2.0.18.0 installActions2005-11-14_01-26-55PM.log:Oracle Universal Installer version is 10.1.0.4.0

I'm thinking this was 9201->9204.

Sometime later, I found my inventory corrupted. Support pointed towards my use of simlinks, but I always, in the back of my mind and with no evidence, suspected something about this boundary.

One thing from that thread my be of interest to you and another was my resolution:

  BTW, support said that they had been asking for a tool to repair the inventory   for a long time, but devel has refused. That says to me a couple of things to me

1. OUI support sees alot of inventory corruption and 2) OUI devel may be weak.

  I had to reinstall the software to get my oraInventory back.

I may be a few fries short of a happy meal in this mess.

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:07:28AM -0500, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:
> Trying to run opatch and it fails per below. However, inventory command
> works.

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