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10.2.0.2 Patch Upgrade issue

Former Member
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hi,

SAP was installed on 10.2.0.1 (SuSe Linux Ent 10 ) . now i am applying patch upgrade to 10.2.0.2. when i am doing patch the below problem was occured,

"Unable to create new central inventory at location /oracle/orainventory. A non empty inventory already exists at this location. Please select another location or clean the inventory at /oracle/orainventory."

please help me on this issue

Regards

Ramesh

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Former Member
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HI ,

Even we faced same issue. The above provided solution has resolved our issue.

Thanks & Regards,

sharma TVK

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solved

Former Member
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Hai,

Please check the oraInst.loc file has the correct entry or not.

File oraInst.loc should have the entries similar to the below:

inventory_loc=/oracle/SID/oraInventory

inst_group=dba

Check the permissions of this file as well, atleast the file should have read access to others.

Also check the permissions of /oracle/SID/oraInventory, it should be owned by ora<sid> user and group dba.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

Edited by: Yoganand Vedagiri on Feb 23, 2009 12:05 PM

stefan_koehler
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Hello Ramesh,

please check, that the path in "/etc/oraInst.loc" or "/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc" is correct and if you have the correct permissions on this pointed directory.

If everthing seems to be o.k., then maybe the central invenotry is corrupted. Check metalink note #556834.1 howto recreate it.

Regards

Stefan