Catalog Manager Does not open in offline mode

I don't know when exactly the issue was started, but we had recently upgraded our platform from 10.1.3.3.1 to 10.1.3.4.1. We also installed a patch for date format issue that started coming after upgrade. We installed patch p8599681_101341_WINNT.zip for bug# 8599681.

When I was trying to migrate catalog to new version of BI Apps, I had to use Catalog Manager in offline mode and it did not open, online was working although. I checked the log file for errors:

D:\OracleBI\web\catalogmanager\workspace\.metadata\.log

Following error were logged every time I tried to open webcat in offline mode:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2009-12-22 15:11:46.694
!MESSAGE no perfapi in java.library.path
!STACK 0
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no perfapi in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1682)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1030)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.JNIConnection.init(JNIConnection.java:62)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.JNIConnection.<init>(JNIConnection.java:22)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.OfflineConnectionManager.<init>(OfflineConnectionManager.java:17)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.CatalogmanagerPlugin.setOnline(CatalogmanagerPlugin.java:105)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.dialogs.OpenCatalogDialog.okPressed(OpenCatalogDialog.java:195)
at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.buttonPressed(Dialog.java:409)
at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog$2.widgetSelected(Dialog.java:556)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:90)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:843)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3080)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2713)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:809)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:787)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.actions.OpenCatalogAction.doRun(OpenCatalogAction.java:43)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.actions.CMAction.run(CMAction.java:92)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:996)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:538)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:488)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:400)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:843)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3080)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2713)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1699)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1663)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:367)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:143)
at com.siebel.analytics.web.catalogmanager.CatalogManager.run(CatalogManager.java:170)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:226)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:376)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:163)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:334)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:278)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:973)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:948)


Next, I tried to uninstall the patch for bug fix. To my surprise catalog manager was working. Another example of shabby bug fix by Oracle. This bug fix has two brand new bugs. First messing the catalog manager offline function, and second, dashboard date default by repository variable throws error in underlying reports (session variable work fine).