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I faced with that error message while I was trying to apply 10.2.0.4 patch on AIX 6.1
Here is the my steps:
1. Error Message:
[oracle@test]</u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/OPatch>opatch lsinventory
Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.3.0
Oracle interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.3.0
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Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0
Central Inventory : /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory
from : /etc/oraInst.loc
OPatch version : 10.2.0.3.0
OUI version : 10.2.0.3.0
OUI location : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oui
Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2013-09-17_10-42-49AM.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::load() gets null oracleHomeInfo
OPatch failed with error code 73
