Oracle Home inventory is corrupted LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory

Oracle Home inventory is corrupted LsInventorySession failed: OracleHome Inventory

[oratest@slctest01 OPatch]$ opatch lsinventory

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.3

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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