Master Note For OPatch

Master Note For OPatch [ID 293369.1]
		Modified 06-OCT-2011     Type BULLETIN     Status PUBLISHED

In this Document
  Purpose
  Scope and Application
  Master Note For OPatch
     General
     How To
     Known Issues
     Windows Specific
     Using My Oracle Support Effectively
     Generic Links
     Community Discussions

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Applies to:

Oracle Universal Installer - Version: 1.0.0.0.50 to 11.2.0.1 - Release: to 11.2
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

To provide a comprehnesive list of commonly used Opatch notes.

Scope and Application

This is applicable to all levels of expertise for Opatch.

Master Note For OPatch

General

Note 732697.1 What Information Oracle Support Need To Work On OPatch Service Requests?
Note 735257.1 What information Oracle Support needs to work on Critical Patch Update (CPU) Installation Service Requests
Note 224346.1 OPatch - Where Can I Find the Latest Version of OPatch?
Note 374092.1 Which OPatch version to download to apply/rollback interim patches?
Note.334108.1 OPatch version 10.2 - FAQ
Note 453495.1 FAQs on OPatch Version : 11.1
Note 726362.1 Interim Patch (One-Off Patch) FAQ
Note 418537.1 Significance of oraInst.loc When Installing Oracle Products and Applying Patches
Note 812874.1 Understanding and Diagnosing MISSING_COMPONENT and/or SKIPPING_COMPONENT messages during opatch apply
Note 865255.1 Best approach for Oracle database patching sequence to latest/required patchset along with CPU/PSU/any-other-one-off patch
Note 433218.1 Why Should You Install 32-Bit JDK/JRE When You Have 64-Bit Oracle and Operating System ?
Note 551222.1 Why Does OPatch Backup The Same Library Multiple Times?
Note 283367.1 OPatch for Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4)

Note 563656.1 Different types of Patch Conflicts - Superset/Subset/Duplicate/Bug/File
Note 861152.1 Does  PSU Released For Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.4) ,11g R1 (11.1.0.7) and 11g R2( 11.2.0.1) Change The Database Version/Fifth Digit?
Note 403212.1 Location Of Logs For Opatch And OUI

How To

Note 298906.1 How To Repair A Corrupted Inventory For RDBMS
Note 556834.1 Steps To Recreate Central Inventory(oraInventory) In RDBMS Homes
Note 406037.1 Using OPatch -report option, how to check for potential conflicts during patch apply without Database / Listener shutdown
Note 458485.1 How to find whether the one-off Patches will conflict or not?
Note 550522.1 How To Avoid Disk Full Issues Because OPatch Backups Take Big Amount Of Disk Space.
Note 749787.1 How to run opatch in silent mode?
Note 821263.1 How to confirm that a Critical Patch Update (CPU) has been installed in Linux / UNIX
Note 750350.1 How To Find The Description/Details Of The Bugs Fixed By A Patch Using Opatch?
Note 729384.1 How To Find If a Specific Patch Has Been Applied On Oracle 8i or 9.0.1 (or 9i R1)?
Note 470225.1 How To Use Truss With Opatch?
Note 312767.1 How to Rollback a Failed Interim Patch Installation

Note 966023.1 How to create a ocm response file for opatch silent installation.
Note 459360.1 How To Do The Prerequisite/Conflicts Checks Using OUI(Oracle Universal Installer) And Opatch Before Applying/Rolling Back A Patch
Note.739963.1 Using AIX commands genld, genkld and slibclean to avoid library file locking errors (libjox)

Known Issues

  With Inventory

Note 229773.1 ALERT Applying Multiple Interim Patches Using OPatch Can Cause Inventory Corruption
Note 401454.1 Opatch Lsinventory Raises An OPatchException While Accessing O2O
Note 413829.1 Opatch Fails With 'Can not get details for given Oracle Home'
Note 417275.1 OPatch Lsinventory Reports `Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/transform/Source` When Executed Against 9.2.0.x
Note 417694.1 "OUI-67124:Inventory check failed: Patch ID is not registered in Oracle Home Inventory" while applying one-off patches using opatch
Note 431783.1 Opatch Lsinventory Result Shows: * Warning: no filemap entries available.
Note 795452.1 Opatch reports Error when using multiple oracle users
Note 864117.1 Opatch error: "Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home."
Note 821550.1 Opatch Lsinventory Error: " Unable To Parse The Xml File"
Note 861677.1 Opatch error : "Unable to lock Central Inventory"
Note 864803.1 Opatch error: "Apply Session failed: ApplySession failed to prepare the system. No detail available."

Note 437026.1 ERROR :"OPatch cannot find a valid oraInst.loc file to locate Central Inventory.OPatch failed with error code 104"
Note 728417.1 OPatch Fails With "LsInventorySession failed:OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo"
Note 751152.1 Opatch Lsinventory Fails With "Unable to create patchObject" OPatch failed with error code 73
Note 1086853.1 OPatch Lsinventory Reports "OUI-67076 : OracleHomeInventory was not able to create a lock file"
Note 876343.1 Patch conflict Error OUI-67301 on 11.1.0.7.0 due to one off in inventory

  With Java

Note 332698.1 OPatch was not able to locate executable jar
Note 417372.1 OPATCH Error " java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: ... liboraInstaller.so: ... "
Note 808368.1 opatch: cannot open shared object file.  Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch
Note 974371.1 After Installing The 11.2.0.1 32-bit Client Software On SPARC Solaris, OPatch and OUI Fail With ELFCLASS32 Errors For liboraInstaller.so

  With Pre-Patching

Note 943436.1 Opatch Prereq Checkapplicable Error: "Unable to create Patch Object. Check if the given patch location is correct"
Note 780858.1 OPatch Fails With `Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed` And `Following executables are active : $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libnmemso.so`
Note 882932.1 Prerequisite check "CheckPatchApplicableOnCurrentPlatform" failed When Applied Generic Patch 8282506
Note 861507.1 PSU Opatch conflict check fails with "OPatch failed with error code 73"
Note 292946.1 Opatch Detecting Wrong Platform Id For Install Of Patch
Note 404473.1 OPatch Reports Error "Opatch detects your platform as... this patch...supports platforms: 0 (Generic Platform)"
Note 602334.1 Opatch Not Working, Reporting That It Is Obsolete
Note 729218.1 ERROR: "The Oracle Home does not meet OUI version requirement.OPatch failed with error code 73"
Note 257800.1 OPATCH: Interim Patch  is holding the lock from this patch
Note 312926.1 Opatch Apply Gives: Can't Locate English.Pm In @Inc
Note 1050819.1 OPatch Reports Missing Component and Prerequisite Check "CheckApplicable" Failed

  With Linking

Note 417319.1 Getting Warnings While Applying Patches on Linux x86-64
Note 457126.1 Opatch Aborted After Relink Fails On Target Ioracle.
Note 789053.1 Cannot find or open library file: -l pls10 when applying a patch with 10.2

Note 402945.1 While installing one-off Patch on AIX systems, getting several WARNING messages: OUI-67215 - TOC overflow and/or xlC: not found / xlC: Execute permission denied

  With Post-Patching

Note 353150.1 OPatch Failing Validation Phase When Archiving Really Did Not Fail
Note 791187.1 OPatch Failing Validation Phase - OPatch versions 10.2.0.4.6 and 11.1.0.6.6
Note 1361802.1 Opatch Auto doesn't patch the RDBMS Home if no database exists

  Miscellaneous

Note 799883.1 Opatch error: OUI-67160 Unexpected end of ZLIB input stream
Note 739815.1 OUI-67294 Warning During OPatch Apply
Note 553244.1 WARNING MESSAGE "OUI-67078" and "OUI-67620" FROM OPATCH WHEN APPLYING 10.2.X PATCHES
Note 751107.1 ERROR: "Copy Action: Source file <filename> does not exist.'oracle.rdbms, <version> Cannot copy file'"
Note 553263.1 Opatch Reports 'libclntsh.so.10.1 not removed. Text file busy'
Note 563356.1 OPatch error 'file not found' message on 11.1.0.6 32-bit
Note 1136432.1 OPatch fails with JVMXM008
Note 1066937.1 Apply Patch Fails with 'Patch ID is null' and Error Code 73

Note 1108834.1 OUI-67073:ApplySession failed: Patch ID is null occurred when applying patch 9352179
Note 803097.1 OUI-67200:Make failed problem while applying a Patch
Note 730754.1 Opatch Gives Exception In Thread "Main" Unsatisfiedlinkerror: Haltimpl
Note 603465.1 OPatch Fails With "Jar not applied ... to $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes12.zip... 'invalid entry compressed size (expected x but got y bytes)'"
Note.1085753.1 Opatch Failing With Error Code 74 While Applying PSU
Note 402945.1 While installing one-off Patch on AIX systems, getting several WARNING messages: OUI-67215 - TOC overflow and/or xlC: not found / xlC: Execute permission denied

Windows Specific

Note 390761.1 Using OPatch On Windows When ORACLE_HOME Contains Space Characters
Note 416318.1 HOW TO Use Process Explorer to obtain a list of DLLs loaded by a Windows process
Note 418479.1 Files in Use errors, when running OPatch to apply patches on Windows
Note 791005.1 Opatch permissions problem on 64-bit windows 2008 and Oracle 10.2.0.3 and 10.2.0.4

Using My Oracle Support Effectively

Note 747242.5 My Oracle Support Configuration Management FAQ
Note 868955.1 My Oracle Support Health Checks Catalog
Note 166650.1 Working Effectively With Global Customer Support
Note 199389.1 Escalating Service Requests with Oracle Support Services
Note 1194734.1 Where do I find that on My Oracle Support (MOS) [Video]

Generic Links

Note 854428.1 Patch Set Updates for Oracle Products
Note 1061295.1 Patch Set Updates - One-off Patch Conflict Resolution
Note 268895.1 Oracle Database Server Patchset Information, Versions: 8.1. 7 to 11.2.0
Note 161549.1 Oracle Database Server and Networking Patches for Microsoft Platforms
Note 161818.1 Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary

Information on Critical Patch Updates (CPU's)