Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Opatch Error: The patch directory area must be a number.

Situation:

Applying  Oct 2014 SPU to Oracle DB software using opatch utility

DB Version: 11.2.0.4.0


Error:

The patch directory area must be a number.

ERROR: OPatch failed because of problems in patch area.


Solution:

Upgraded opatch to latest version.

After upgrade the patch application went smooth.

It can happen for other reasons also like  if  we try to apply a wrong release patch or instead of "opatch napply" "opatch apply" is  tried etc

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