Like Ruth said one of our guys working on HP told me: "Yup we've installed a number of opatches onto HP, the problem with this attempt looks to be that all of the inventory directory isn't there. However are you sure this is patch68 ??? as all the patch 68's I've installed on8174 (HP & Solaris) haven't used opatch instead you've just had to run patchserver.sh rather than opatch. In fact this is indicated by opatch looking for ContentsXML which only appears under 9i and not an 8i install" Larry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ruth Gramolini Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:43 AM To: oracle-l Subject: FW: problem installing security #68 patch I had a similar problem. I didn't have an oraInventory directory. Look in you oraInst.loc file (on AIX it is /etc) and see where the inventory_loc is. Mine is actually in the Oracle Home. Then look for the missing file there. HTH, Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of ed lewis Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:10 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: problem installing security #68 patch Hi, I'm having a problem installing this patch using the "opatch" utility The system is HP11, Oracle 8.1.7.4 (64bit). Here is the error I get : $opatch lsinventory PERL5LIB=; export PERL5LIB /usr/bin/perl /oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/patches/OPatch/opatch.pl lsinventory Using oraInst.loc to look up oui libs... Parsing /oracle/app/oracle/oraInventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml /oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/patches/OPatch/opatch.pl version: 1.0.0.0.50 Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Cannot open to read file /oracle/app/oracle/oraInventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml OS_ERROR = [No such file or directory] ********* I get the same error when I attempt to run "opatch apply". The directory "/oracle/app/oracle/oraInventory/ContentXML" does not exist. Should it be there, or will it be created depending on which products are installed ? I've searched metalink, and contacted support but so far have been unsuccessful. Your help is appreciated. ed lewis -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ********************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l