OPatch failed with error code 73

I was upgrading 19.3 to 19.7 and applying the below patch and during the patch, I faced the error "OPatch failed with error code 73:- 

30805684: OJVM RELEASE UPDATE 19.7.0.0.0

Note:- All instances were down. 

Please check below opatch process :- 

opatch apply

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.21

Copyright (c) 2020, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1

Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory

   from           : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc

OPatch version    : 12.2.0.1.21

OUI version       : 12.2.0.7.0

Logfile location: /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2020-10-19_16-26-35PM_1.log

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...

Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.

The details are:

Following active executables are not used by opatch process :

/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle

Following active executables are used by opatch process :

UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.

Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2020-10-19_16-26-35PM_1.log

OPatch failed with error code 73

In Logs:- 

Following active executables are not used by opatch process :/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle

Following active executables are used by opatch process : Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.

The details are:

Following active executables are not used by opatch process : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle

Solution:- 

This was happening because there was one session that was still connected to sqlplus binaries. 

ps -ef|grep sqlplus 

Killed the session and successfully completed it. 

opatch apply

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.21

Copyright (c) 2020, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1

Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory from 

                  : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc

OPatch version    : 12.2.0.1.21

OUI version       : 12.2.0.7.0

Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2020-10-19_16-33-39PM_1.log

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...

OPatch continues with these patches:   30805684

Do you want to proceed? [y|n] y

User Responded with: Y

All checks passed.

Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.

(Oracle Home = '/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1')

Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n] y

User Responded with: Y

Backing up files...

Applying interim patch '30805684' to OH '/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1'

Patching component oracle.javavm.server, 19.0.0.0.0...

Patching component oracle.javavm.server.core, 19.0.0.0.0...

Patching component oracle.rdbms.dbscripts, 19.0.0.0.0...

Patching component oracle.rdbms, 19.0.0.0.0...

Patch 30805684 successfully applied.

Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2020-10-19_16-33-39PM_1.log

 

OPatch succeeded.

Note:- Make sure there are no binaries used during applying the patch. 

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