Unable to lock Central Inventory. OPatch will attempt to re-lock

Question

Am installing an patch for Fusion Middleware in windows7 machine. While applying the patch(command: opatch apply) getting error as follows:

Unable to lock Central Inventory. OPatch will attempt to re-lock.

Kindly help me out. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Found Solution:

1. Remove the "locks" folder inside Oracle_Home/inventory.
2. Remove the ".patch_storage" folder inside the Oracle_Home.

Make sure, JDK & PATH(set path=C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\OPatch;%path%) to be set.

Then execute the command opatch apply

Enjoy Patching.

Answer 2

Check if you are running cmd as administrator. This solved the issue for me.