RE: Opatch error

  • From: "Billy Verreynne (JW)" <VerreyB@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:16:36 +0200

Onkar N Tiwary wrote:

<snipped>
>  but still the same problem.... Any other ideas???????????

On Unix (or at least my Linux RHES platforms), the following two basic
rules apply.

1. OPatch must be run inside the actual patch directory itself. I.e.
the directory
   that contains the patch number.

2. OPatch must be run using the full path to the Perl program and must
not be resolved
   via the o/s environment path as this invalidates rule 1.

Simple example. This does not work (rule 1 violated):
/software/oracle/pacthes/123456789/notes> opatch apply

This does not work (rule 2 voliated):
/software/oracle/pacthes/123456789> opatch apply

This works:
/software/oracle/pacthes/123456789>
/software/oracle/product/10.1.0/OPatch/opatch apply


No idea what the relevance, if any, is to the Windows o/s. But on
Linux RHES AMD64, it applies. (rule 2 is especially weird and seems be
an issue with how the Perl Interpreter is invoked)

--
Billy

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