1862446 - Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home

Opatch logs shows below error:

1. "OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home."
   
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   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

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2. "LsInventorySession failed: RawInventory gets a null Vector of installed products"
     
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   OUI-67073:LsInventorySession failed: RawInventory gets a null Vector of installed products
   Finishing LsInventorySession at Fri Nov 22 06:51:19 JST 2019
   Stack Description: java.lang.RuntimeException: RawInventory gets a null Vector of installed products
   at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.loadRawInventory(RawInventory.java:233)
   at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.init(RawInventory.java:181)
   at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.getInstance(RawInventory.java:89)
   at oracle.opatch.ipm.IPMReadServices.getRawInventory(IPMReadServices.java:198)
   at oracle.opatch.ipm.IPMReadServices.loadInventory(IPMReadServices.java:1818)
   at oracle.opatch.LsInventorySession.process(LsInventorySession.java:357)
   at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.process(OPatchSession.java:2114)
   at oracle.opatch.OPatch.process(OPatch.java:812)
   at oracle.opatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:862)

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• Oracle Database Release independent
• UNIX/LINUX
• SAP Release independent

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