LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo

I renamed my oracle home /apps/ebs/product/oa11idev/12.1.0.2

I ran the opatch lsinventory

List of homes on this system:

 Home name= OraDB12Home6, Location= "/apps/ebs/product/12.1.0.2"

Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home.

Possible causes are:

   Oracle Home dir. path does not exist in Central Inventory

   Oracle Home is a symbolic link

   Oracle Home inventory is corrupted

LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo.

Action:

under my central inventory ContentsXML/inventory.xml, I added my new inventory home.

save the file.

$ opatch lsinventory 

...

......

oracle Database 12c                                                  12.1.0.2.0

There are 1 products installed in this Oracle Home.

There are no Interim patches installed in this Oracle Home.

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opatch napply -skip_subset -skip_duplicate
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.4
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4
Central Inventory : /apps/ebsoraInventory
   from           : /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 11.2.0.3.4
OUI version       : 11.2.0.4.0
Log file location : /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2016-04-25_15-11-54PM_1.log

List of Homes on this system:

  Home name= PRO0TS, Location= "/apps/ebsproduct/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.3"
 OPatchSession cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4. Possible causes are:
   No read or write permission to ORACLE_HOME/.patch_storage
   Central Inventory is locked by another OUI instance
   No read permission to Central Inventory
   The lock file exists in ORACLE_HOME/.patch_storage
   The Oracle Home does not exist in Central Inventory

UtilSession failed: OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo
Log file location: /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2016-04-25_15-11-54PM_1.log 

OPatch failed with error code 73

 /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4 this home was corrupted.

solution:
go to your inventory location .eg /apps/OraInventory/ContentsXML

take copy of inventory.xml file.

remove the previous home from xml file and save.

go to   /apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4/oui/bin   

./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs -attachHome ORACLE_HOME="/apps/ebs/product/oa11its/db11g/11.2.0.4" ORACLE_HOME_NAME="SID"


test opatch lsinventory