Inventory load failed

Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home.
Possible causes are:

[ora@oracle OPatch]$ opatch lsinventory

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.1.0.1.3
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Oracle Home       : /u01/app/db/tech_st/12.1.0.2
Central Inventory : /u01/app/db/oraInventory
   from           : /u01/app/db/tech_st/12.1.0.2/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 12.1.0.1.3
OUI version       : 12.1.0.2.0
Log file location : /u01/app/db/tech_st/12.1.0.2/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatchAM_1.log

List of Homes on this system:

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


Solution


[ora@oracle ~]$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
[ora@oracle bin]$ pwd
/u01/app/db/tech_st/12.1.0.2/oui/bin

[ora@oracle bin]$ vi attachHome.sh

[ora@oracle bin]$ ./attachHome.sh

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 8191 MB    Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc

'AttachHome' was successful.

Retest issue.

[ora@oracle OPatch]$ opatch lsinventory

Issue has been resolved.