OPatch (Oracle Patching Tool

Known Issues

OPatch failed with error code 73 (active executables)

Error:

Following executables are active :
/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/IBISTEST/lib/libclntsh.so.12.1
UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/IBISTEST/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2019-01-22_13-02-13PM_1.log

Analysis:

-- check which process is keeping this file:
$ /usr/sbin/fuser /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/PROD/lib/libclntsh.so.12.1
/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/PROD/lib/libclntsh.so.12.1:    24541m

$ ps -p 24541
   PID TTY         TIME CMD
 24541 pts/1       0:00 sqlplus

Solution:

• Stop the program. In this case it was sqlplus