OPATCHAUTO-72050: System instance creation failed | Failed while retrieving system information.

I got ” OPATCHAUTO-72050: System instance creation failed | Failed while retrieving system information. ” error in the Oracle database.

 

OPATCHAUTO-72050: System instance creation failed | Failed while retrieving system information.

Details of error are as follows.

[root@msdbadm01 patch]# opatchauto apply 32545008/

OPatchauto session is initiated at Tue Sep 14 22:09:59 2021
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System initialization log file is /u01/app/19.0.0.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchautodb/systemconfig2021-09-14_10-17-09PM.log.

OPATCHAUTO-72050: System instance creation failed.
OPATCHAUTO-72050: Failed while retrieving system information.
OPATCHAUTO-72050: Please check log file for more details.

OPatchauto session completed at Tue Sep 14 22:17:49 2021
Time taken to complete the session 7 minutes, 50 seconds

Topology creation failed.
[root@msdbadm01 patch]#

 

 

 

 

 

The ownership of oraInst.loc inside <grid home> was different on both Nodes-

[oracrs@msdbadm01 ~]$ ll $GRID_HOME/oraInst.loc
-rw-r----- 1 root root 55 Jul 7 2016 $GRID_HOME/oraInst.loc



[oracrs@msdbadm02 ~]$ ll $GRID_HOME/oraInst.loc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 127 Jun 21 2016 $GRID_HOME/oraInst.loc

 

opatchauto looks up the ownership of <GRID HOME>/oraInst.loc to determine the owner of <GRID_HOME>, in order to run cluvfy.

Since, oraInst.loc was owned by root, it assumed the owner of <GRID_HOME> to be root and the mentioned message was displayed

 

 

Ensure the ownership of <GRID HOME>/oraInst.loc is proper across each Node.

If incorrect, then change the Ownership to Grid User & re-run opatchauto.

 

 

OR Change file permission of Patch location as follows.

 

chmod -R 775 <unzipped patch location>

chmod -R 775 /u01/patch/32545008

 

 

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