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Please Insert One More Bit
By Eric Gross | November 19, 2007
I just ran into an error while installing the new CPU for October 2007 (Patch #6394981) on RHEL 4 x86_64 so I figured I would share this error to save you the time of figuring out what the problem is. See the full log here.
The errors started after 5-10 minutes of processing and looked like this: Patching component oracle.sdo.locator, 10.2.0.3.0…
It seems that the file $ORACLE_HOME/bin/genoccish contains a reference to the number of bits like this:
LDFLAGS_ARCH=-m31
But, as we all know, 31 bit situations are quite rare and this is just a typo, so fix it by replacing that line with this line:
LDFLAGS_ARCH=-m32
Gotta love unpublished bugs. Refer to Metalink Note #397344.1 for more details. Hope this helps!
Topics: 10gR2, OPatch, Patches