Patch Oracle 9.2.0.6 on linux with Jan 2006 CPU - inventory not updated

Question

Hi,
We have tried to apply the Jan 2006 CPU (4751921) patch to Oracle 9.2.0.6 running on linux (redhat AS 4). The Apply log reports:
Patch 4751921 has been applied successfully.
... but then when trying to Update inventory it reports:
INVENTORY PROBLEM: Patch 4751921 is not present in Oracle Home inventory.
OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR: Patch was not successfully applied.
Verification of the patch failed.
ERROR: OPatch failed as verification of the patch failed.
This seems like the patch has been applied, but it can't update the inventory.
Followed the preinstall steps regarding the "Inventory Problem", including running checkinv.pl to clean up the inventory. This does clean up the dangling inventory.
Reran the opatch for 4751921, same output.
Tried running: opatch apply -verbose for 4751921, and it reports that the patch was succesful, no complaints about the inventory; yet an: opatch lsinventory does not show 4751921.
Without the inventory being correct, presumably we will continue to have problems like this with future patches; but the software has been patched and seems to run fine.
Any way to rebuild the inventory file?
thanks.

Answer 1

We had a similar (but not the same) error and we were suggested by Oracle to set the following environment variables before running opatch:
export OPATCH_DEBUG=YES
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export SHLIB_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
export SHLIB_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jre/1.4.2/lib/PA_RISC:$SHLIB_PATH
export SHLIB_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jre/1.4.2/lib/PA_RISC/server:$SHLIB_PATH
cd <patch directory>
opatch apply -jdk /opt/java1.4
The directories may be different depending on implementation, o/s. etc.
Regards,
Chandan