OUI-10022:The target area /u01/oracle/gridbase/oraInventory cannot be used because it is in an invalid state.

 OUI-10022:The target area /u01/oracle/gridbase/oraInventory cannot be used because it is in an invalid state.

• Scenario : 

We clean up the RAC machine on both VMbox and try to reinstall from scratch  ora inventory was different from old installation.

• Check location on both node and correct the same . In our case inventory location was different so correct it or remove inventory location it will automatically add inventory_loc during installation.

[root@srv2 etc]# vi oraInst.loc 

inventory_loc=/u01/oracle/gridbase/oraInventory

inst_group=oinstall

[root@srv2 etc]# cat  /etc/oraInst.loc 

inventory_loc=/u01/oracle/gridbase/oraInventory

inst_group=oinstall

[root@srv2 etc]# 

• We re run ./gridsetup.sh and found no issue set run smoothly.