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RE: The patch directory area must be a number

From: Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:25:10 -0400
Message-ID: <AA29A27627F842409E1D18FB19CDCF270C77B1DC@AABO-EXCHANGE02.bos.il.pqe>


Brian,  

Take the subject of this message, without the "RE: ", put quotes around it, and do a MetaLink search. You should see 4 different documents, all apparently relevant.  

-Mark  

PS The error has to do with the contents of the patch directory being corrupt or incomplete. See MetaLink for the details.      

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ProQuest...Start here.  


From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Brian Lock Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:37 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: The patch directory area must be a number

While trying to applying the latest patch to 9i, we are receiving this error. Any ideas on what may be causing this?    

Thankd  

Brian

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Jun 08 2007 - 14:25:10 CDT

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