Re: Tale of woe - failed patch install and attempted recovery

From: EdStevens <quetico_man_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 13 Oct 2005 11:19:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1129227583.012187.237160@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

bdbafh_at_gmail.com wrote:
> "I had asked the SA to tar up $ORACLE_HOME. Only problem is, he
> misunderstood (my fault for not being more clear) and had tar'd
> /local/home/oracle, not the /u01/...../9.2.0 where we had $ORACLE_HOME.
> "
>
> yeah, root usually doesn't have that set as an environment variable.
> that's a classic frame of reference type of thing.
>
> Where is the OraInventory or inst_loc?
> I would guess that its in /var/opt/oracle - but I can't tell from your
> posting.
> It might be under /u01/oracle ... guessing from where you said was
> "whacked".
>
> Can you check the OUI logs from when it was uninstalling?
>
> -bdbafh

What was in /var/opt/oracle was oratab and oraInst.loc, I don't recall exactly what was in oraInst.loc, because we whacked it for teh second installation attempt.

So it was pointing to a directory that no longer exi Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 13:19:43 CDT