Oracle Home inventory is corrupted LsInventorySession failed: OracleHome Inventory
[oratest@slctest01 OPatch]$ opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.3
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oracle Home : /u01/oracle/testdb/11.2.0
Central Inventory : /u01/oraInventory
from : /u01/oracle/testdb/11.2.0/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 11.2.0.3.3
OUI version : 11.2.0.3.0
Log file location : /u01/oracle/testdb/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2013-05-15_10-27-12AM_1.log
List of Homes on this system:
Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home.
Possible causes are:
Oracle Home dir. path does not exist in Central Inventory
Oracle Home is a symbolic link
Oracle Home inventory is corrupted
LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo
OPatch failed with error code 73
Solution
I was able to solve this issue; Follow the steps below:
1. Login to the server.
2. cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
$ ./attachHome.sh
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 196608 MB Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2012-06-27_03-07-48AM. Please wait ...
3. Re-run the same command and it is going to work.
[oratest@slctest01 ~]$ opatch lsinventory