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Datapatch Fails with Error :“Can’t load ‘%ORACLE_HOME%/perl/site/ib/auto/DBD/Oracle.dll’ for module DBD::Oracle: load_file: The specified module could not be found” (Doc ID 2193420.1)

Last updated on MARCH 15, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

 Windows Platform 

‘Datapath -verbose’ fails with below error

<oracle_home>\OPatch>datapatch -verbose

Can't load '<oracle_home>/perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:The specified module could not be found at <oracle_home>/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 190.

at <oracle_home>\\sqlpatch/sqlpatch.pm line 169

Compilation failed in require at <oracle_home>\\sqlpatch/sqlpatch.pm line 169.

OR

<19c OH>\OPatch>datapatch -verbose
"make_path" is not exported by the File::Path module
Can't continue after import errors at <19c OH>\\sqlpatch/sqlpatch.pm line 417
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at <19c OH>\\sqlpatch/sqlpatch.pm line 417.
Compilation failed in require at <19c OH>\\sqlpatch\sqlpatch.pl line 121.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at <19c OH>\\sqlpatch\sqlpatch.pl line 121.

 Linux Platform 

./datapatch -verbose
/u01/app/oracle/product/19/db/sqlpatch/sqlpatch: line 91: 30593 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl -I$ORACLE_HOME/sqlpatch -I$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin -I$ORACLE_HOME/sqlpatch/lib $ORACLE_HOME/sqlpatch/sqlpatch.pl $@

 

Cause

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