Jo - Thanks. It appears there was different versions of opatch in the OMS, Agent and DB homes and I must have used a later version when applying the last patch to my OMS home. I now installed the latest version of opatch outside of any of the Oracle homes so that I use the same version for all homes on this server. Thanks again Bill On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Holvoet, Jo wrote: > Bill, > > These types of errors are usually related to a version of OPatch that is too > low for the inventory (see Metalink note 1119465.1). > First thing I would try is to install the latest OPatch for 10.2 in the > oracle_home. > > mvg / regards, > Jo Holvoet > > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Bill Zakrzewski > Sent: woensdag 19 januari 2011 21:08 > To: oracle_l > Subject: Opatch error > > All - > > RH 5.6 > Oracle 10.2.0.5.0 Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) > > Has anyone run into this error? The ORACLE_HOME environment variable was set > to the OMS_HOME. The PATH was updated so that $OMS_HOME/OPatch was the first > directory. The statement was executed from $OMS_HOME/OPatch directory. I > have successfully detached and re-attached this Oracle Home using the scripts > in $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin, but this error persists. > > [oracle@mwdzui1 OPatch]$ ./opatch lsinventory > Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.5 > > Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.5 > Copyright (c) 2008, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > > Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g > Central Inventory : /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory > from : /etc/oraInst.loc > OPatch version : 10.2.0.4.5 > OUI version : 10.2.0.5.0 > OUI location : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g/oui > Log file location : > /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2011-01-19_12-35-54PM.log > > Patch history file: > /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch_history.txt > > > > Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle > Home. > > LsInventorySession failed: Unable to create patchObject > > OPatch failed with error code 73 > > Thanks in advance > Bill