Oracle Forms

Hello All,
I learnt there are some complexities when running Forms [32 Bit] Version 10.1.2.0.g r2 on windows vista. I have been experiencing this issue. So I have decided to upgrade to vista service pack 1. I have patch set 7047034 and opatch 6880880. But everytime i try to run it, i.e opatch apply.

I get the error ORACLE HOME not set.

when i set oracle_home to forms 10g oracle_home

set ORACLE_HOME=c:\DevSuiteHome_1

And run opatch

I get the following error.

C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch>opatch apply
Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.9
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiix.OiixPathOps.concatPath(OiixPathOps.java:551)
at oracle.opatch.OPatch.setupEnvironment(OPatch.java:268)
at oracle.opatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:440)

OPatch failed with error code = 1

But when i set the ORACLE_HOME to the Oracle Database 10g ORACLE_HOME

I get the following error.




C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch>
C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch>set ORACLE_HOME=c:\oracle
\product\10.2.0\db_1

C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch>echo %ORACLE_HOME%
c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1

C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch>opatch apply
Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.4.9
OPatch could not create/open history file for writing : c:\oracle\product\10.2.0
\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch_history.txt
c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch_history.txt (Access is d
enied)

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.4.9
Copyright (c) 2009, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

OPatch could not open log file, logging will not be possible

Oracle Home : c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
from : n/a
OPatch version : 10.2.0.4.9
OUI version : 10.2.0.3.0
OUI location : c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oui
Log file location : c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2010-
08-11_05-07-01AM.log

Patch history file: c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch_hist
ory.txt

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:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch
Details = PatchObject constructor: Input file "C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p6880
880_102000_WINNT\OPatch\etc\config\actions" or "C:\Users\ajayia\Downloads\p68808
80_102000_WINNT\OPatch\etc\config\inventory" does not exist.

ApplySession failed: PatchObject constructor: Input file "C:\Users\ajayia\Downlo
ads\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch\etc\config\actions" or "C:\Users\ajayia\Downloa
ds\p6880880_102000_WINNT\OPatch\etc\config\inventory" does not exist.
System intact, OPatch will not attempt to restore the system

OPatch failed with error code = 73




My question is which oracle home is it supposed to be set to?

Now am intending to upgrade to windows 7, will I still encounter problems of patches.

I dont know whats going on, pls help.

Thanks in anticipation and sorry for the long words.


cheers
Aj