Strange 10gR1 Opatch Logging Behaviour

Question

Hi,
just to see if someone else has experencied that:
10gR1 opatch needs ORACLE_HOME/.patch_storage directory
for logging opatch lsinventory command messages, that is LsInventory.pm perl module.
The point is that the module doesn't create that directory and it will show up following error message:
Problems with creating the log file:
Couldn't create file for logging. Error is: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
So until you use opatch apply command (to apply a patch to the ORACLE_HOME) or until you manual create that directory in your ORACLE_HOME, you
will be unable to log opatch messages.
Thats' all,
Greetings-

Answer 1

Hi!
I have recently encountered the same behaviour when running Forms from the Builder through my local OC4J container.
The error was not same everytime.
I would start debugging and the problem would disappear.
I found that if I did a "Compile All" on the Form everytime i run, I can avoid these problems.and I wasted many hours on this. not in forms but in reports also, everytime i have to compile all the rdf before running it from web.
I was running Forms Builder 9i (9.0.2) on Windows XP and all the forms were build in this version. as I had not used this developer version I was saying this is 9i bug.
I have used developer 10g version and face no such problems but tim is facing this in 10g. so it looks problem is somewhere........
Frank this indeed sounds strange
reg