How to Apply an 11i Patch When adpatch is Already Running

Adpatch is running and fails on one of the workers. To fix this worker andcontinue with the patch installation, a new patch needs to be applied. But only 1 adpatch session can run on an instance at any giventime, The following work around can be used to apply a patch when adpatch is already running.

1. Using the adctrl utility, shutdown the workers.
a. adctrl
b. Select option

3 "Tell worker to shutdown/quit"

2. Backup the FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES table which is owned by the APPLSYS schema
a. sqlplus applsys/
b. create table fnd_Install_processes_back as select * from fnd_Install_processes;
c. The 2 tables should have the same number of records.
select count(*) from fnd_Install_processes_back;
select count(*) from fnd_Install_processes;

3. Backup the AD_DEFERRED_JOBS table.
a. sqlplus applsys/
b. create table AD_DEFERRED_JOBS_back as select * from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS;
c. The 2 tables should have the same number of records.
select count(*) from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS_back;
select count(*) from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS;

4. Backup the .rf9 files located in $APPL_TOP/admin//restart directory.
At this point, the adpatch session should have ended and the cursor should be back at the Unix prompt.
a. cd $APPL_TOP/admin/
b. mv restart restart_back
c. mkdir restart

5. Drop the FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES table and the AD_DEFERRED_JOBS table.
a. sqlplus applsys/
b. drop table FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES;
c. drop table AD_DEFERRED_JOBS;

6. Apply the new patch.

7. Restore the .rf9 files located in $APPL_TOP/admin//restart_back directory.
a. cd $APPL_TOP/admin/
b. mv restart restart_
c. mv restart_back restart

8. Restore the FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES table which is owned by the APPLSYS schema.
a. sqlplus applsys/
b. create table fnd_Install_processes as select * from fnd_Install_processes_back;
c. The 2 tables should have the same number of records.
select count(*) from fnd_Install_processes;
select count(*) from fnd_Install_processes_back;

9. Restore the AD_DEFERRED_JOBS table.
a. sqlplus applsys/
b. create table AD_DEFERRED_JOBS as select * from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS_back;
c. The 2 tables should have the same number of records.
select count(*) from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS_back;
select count(*) from AD_DEFERRED_JOBS;

10. Re-create synonyms
a. sqlplus apps/apps
b. create synonym AD_DEFERRED_JOBS for APPLSYS.AD_DEFERRED_JOBS;
c. create synonym FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES FOR APPLSYS.FND_INSTALL_PROCESSES;

11. Start adpatch, it will resume where it stopped previously.