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I'm very new to Oracle, but I'm trying to apply patch 6880880.

I've read the README and User Guide. I currently have 11.2.0.1.0 installed on Windows 2008 x64.

I've unzipped the patch to $ORACLE_HOME\Opatch112\OPatch

I've set $ORACLE_HOME and $JAVA_HOME variables. Confirmed the patch directory is in $PATH.

opatch lsinventory works...

C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\Opatch112\OPatch>opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.3
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.


Oracle Home : C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
from : n/a
OPatch version : 11.2.0.3.3
OUI version : 11.2.0.1.0
Log file location : C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opa
tch2013-01-14_09-34-29AM_1.log

Lsinventory Output file location : C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\lsinv\lsinventory2013-01-14_09-34-29AM.txt

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Installed Top-level Products (1):

Oracle Client 11.2.0.1.0
There are 1 products installed in this Oracle Home.

There are no Interim patches installed in this Oracle Home.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


OPatch succeeded.

C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\Opatch112\OPatch>

But when I try to run opatch apply, I get error code 73:

C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\Opatch112\OPatch>opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.3
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.


Oracle Home : C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
from : n/a
OPatch version : 11.2.0.3.3
OUI version : 11.2.0.1.0
Log file location : C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opa
tch2013-01-14_09-36-00AM_1.log

Failed to load the patch object. Possible causes are:
The specified path is not an interim Patch shiphome
Meta-data files are missing from the patch area
Patch location = C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\Opatch112\OPatch
Details = PatchObject constructor: Input file "C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\cl
ient_1\Opatch112\OPatch\etc\config\actions" or "C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\cli
ent_1\Opatch112\OPatch\etc\config\inventory" does not exist.

OPatch failed: PatchObject constructor: Input file "C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0
\client_1\Opatch112\OPatch\etc\config\actions" or "C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\
client_1\Opatch112\OPatch\etc\config\inventory" does not exist.
Log file location: C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opat
ch2013-01-14_09-36-00AM_1.log

OPatch failed with error code = 73

Thanks,
TL