I am no longer working for Oracle

Dear Follower,
I am not working for Oracle as of November 2009.
-It was already all my personal views and comments published in this blog.-
I will be going on to work on Oracle tools on contract based from now on.
Thanks for your interest.

OPatch was not able to get details of the home from the inventory

If OPatch is failing becuase of inventory issues, you can force it to use the inventory you have. Try to use this:
-opatch apply -invPtrLoc