Tag Archives: patching

Keeping OPatch up-to-date: an object lesson

Is opatch failing with the message “ApplySession failed: Patch ID is null.”? Might want to verify your opatch version…

EBS 12.1 now generally available

E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is now available. I’ve started collecting reference links that could be relevant to an upgrade, and am making them available here.

The strange case of a failing adstrtal.sh script…

I recently ran across an interesting situation while I was working on an E-Business Suite environment: the adstrtal.sh and adstpall.sh scripts weren’t doing anything. They weren’t showing errors, but neither were they starting or stopping services. This post takes a look at the problem, unearths the cause, and presents a solution that isn’t always palatable, but in this case is warranted.