HI ALL, Thanx for the reply. I must say sorry for not mentioning the environment i am working on. Its windows 2000 adv.server and oracle potal 10.1.2.0.0. I tried all the combinations provided and suggested by u all but still facing the same problem. I guess it might be coz of the os which is different and the suggested os (by u all) is on unix or linux. Any idea for windows plateform. TIA On 7/23/05, Lon White <lon_dba@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Onkar, > Have you tries running <opatch lsinventory>? I have not run opatch on a > portal installation but have done so many times on Oracle Apps. I run the > lsinventory command to verify opatch is working correctly. The few problems > I have run into deal with wrong binaries in path i.e. wrong "AR" binary on > an HPUX system. I have also run into un-updated entries in various inventory > XML files after clones. Is this a windows install? If so, have you checked > your MKS install? > HTH, > Lon White > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Onkar N Tiwary <onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Sent:* Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:57 AM > *Subject:* Opatch error > > Hi all, > We are trying to install OPatch on Oracle Portal DB for the sake of > exp-imp. As oracle says that this patch is required to install bug which is > there for Oracle Portal DB. But its giving the error. Can anyone throw some > light on this. > > > E:\OraHome_1\2617419\OPatch>opatch apply > > Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 1.0.0.0.53 > Copyright (c) 2005 Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.. > > We recommend you refer to the OPatch documentation under > OPatch/docs for usage reference. We also recommend using > the latest OPatch version. For the latest OPatch version > and other support related issues, please refer to document > 293369.1 which is viewable from > metalink.oracle.com<http://metalink.oracle.com/> > > Oracle Home = e:\orahome_1 > Location of Oracle Universal Installer components = E:\orahome_1\oui > Location of OraInstaller.jar = "E:\orahome_1\oui\jlib" > Oracle Universal Installer shared library = > E:\orahome_1\oui\lib\win32\oraInstal > ler.dll > Location of Oracle Inventory Pointer = N/A > Location of Oracle Inventory = E:\orahome_1\inventory > Path to Java = "E:\orahome_1\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe" > Log file = e:\orahome_1/.patch_storage/<patch ID>/*.log > > The patch directory area must be a number. > > ERROR: OPatch failed because of problems in patch area. > OPatch returns with error code = 170 > > E:\OraHome_1\2617419\OPatch> > > TIA > -- > Thanks & Regards, > T. Onkar Nath > OneAPPS Enterprise Technology Pvt. Ltd. > to_onkar@xxxxxxxxx > onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx > > -- Thanks & Regards, T. Onkar Nath OneAPPS Enterprise Technology Pvt. Ltd. to_onkar@xxxxxxxxx onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx