Tuesday, September 12, 2017

How to attach an ORACLE_HOME to an existing inventory

I wanted to check the patchlevel in one of my Oracle installations, and the following errow was returned:
oracle@tsl0map-dbteam-sandbox-db04:[vegdb01]# opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.1.0.1.3
Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : /u01/oracle/product/12102
Central Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory
   from           : /u01/oracle/product/12102/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 12.1.0.1.3
OUI version       : 12.1.0.2.0
Log file location : /u01/oracle/product/12102/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-09-12_15-30-47PM_1.log

List of Homes on this system:

  Home name= agent13c2, Location= "/u01/oracle/product/agent13c/agent_13.2.0.0.0"
  Home name= 11204, Location= "/u01/oracle/product/11204"
  Home name= OraHome3, Location= "/u01/oracle/product/gg121"
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

Turned out my inventory had not been updated with my new Oracle Home. When I looked in the inventory.xml file on my server, there was no entry for the installation there.

To fix this, add the new OH to your inventory. From your OH that is missing, do the following:
cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
./runInstaller -invPtrLoc /u01/oracle/product/12102/oraInst.loc -attachHome ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/product/12102 ORACLE_HOME_NAME="Ora12cHome"
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 8191 MB    Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /u01/oracle/product/12102/oraInst.loc
'AttachHome' was successful.

Check the inventory file now, and you'll see a new entry for the OH (in my case the Ora12cHome):
<HOME NAME="agent13c2" LOC="/u01/oracle/product/agent13c/agent_13.2.0.0.0" TYPE="O" IDX="8"/>
<HOME NAME="11204" LOC="/u01/oracle/product/11204" TYPE="O" IDX="1"/>
<HOME NAME="Ora12cHome" LOC="/u01/oracle/product/12102" TYPE="O" IDX="9"/>
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  1. ziadabuqasemFebruary 13, 2023 at 5:12 AM

    I also have same error when installing oracle grid infrastructure 12c RAC database I need to run the following command to continue /u01/app/12.1.0/grid/oui/bin/runInstaller -jreLoc /u01/app/12.1.0/grid/jdk/jre -paramFile /u01/app/12.1.0/grid/oui/clusterparam.ini -silent
    -ignoreSysPrereqs -updateNodeList -bigCluster ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/12.1.0/grid CLUSTER_NODES=kaash-his-2 "NODES_TO_SET={kaash-his-1,kaash-his-2}"
    -invPtrLoc "/u01/app/12.1.0/grid/oraInst.loc" -local
    but I got error The operation failed as it was called without path of Oracle Home being attached
    how to add ORACLE HOME path and execute the command and continue the setup please ?

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