Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Master Note For OPatch [ID 293369.1]



In this Document





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

  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 

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 374370.1 New Customers Start Here

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



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


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