Re: oraInventory issue

From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:55:39 -0500
Message-ID: <4C44595B.704_at_ardentperf.com>

No worries - the patch information is actually stored in a subdir under the oracle_home. All you're really doing is "re-attaching" the home to the inventory. The patch info should all be there.

-Jeremy

Nagaraj S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> By mistake oraInventory folder has been deleted in one our development
> oracle database server. Certainly while issuing opatch , we got the
> below error
>
>
>
> / The Central Inventory is corrupted /
>
> / The oraInst.loc file specified is not valid./
>
> / /
>
> However as a Fix, I can see we can rebuild orainventory by the below
> command.
>
>
>
> ./runInstaller -silent -invPtrLoc “/oracle10/oracle/oraInst.loc”
> -attachHome ORACLE_HOME=”/oracle10/oracle” ORACLE_HOME_NAME=”Ora10gHome”
>
>
>
> My doubt is, if we rebuild the orainventory will it get updated with
> all the oracle patches applied on databases to till date. Thanks in
> advance
>
> -Nagaraj.

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