ORA-1403

Does OJVM patching fail again with ORA-1403 in 19.31?

Posted on May 15, 2026 by JVM Patch Recommendation 8

Some of you had been trapped by ORA-1403 during patching to Oracle Database 19.30. I blogged about this in February this year, and I had to update the blog post a few times until we collected all the issues. The root cause got fixed and included in Release Update 19.31. But over the past days I received a good number of messages about the issue being there in 19.31 again. So,  does OJVM patching fail again with ORA-1403 in 19.31?. Yes, and no.

Why do some see the error again?

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OJVM patching fails with ORA-1403 in 19.30 if JAVAVM is not installed

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Flaws and Pitfalls JVM Patch Recommendation 107

Thanks to all the people (Jeff, Daniele, Lothar and others) who alerted me about this topic. Some of you had even created their own fix already. So, this is about an issue which happens only if you have no JAVAVM installed in your database or PDB but you still apply the OJVM Bundle on to of the Oracle Database 19.30 Release Update. You may find then: OJVM patching fails with ORA-1403 in 19.30 if JAVAVM is not installed.

When does this happen?

This issue happens when you apply the OJVM bundle together with …

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Apply Patch 31088341 before Upgrade to prevent ORA-1403

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Flaws and Pitfalls 6

As I learned from a customer this week, this patch is a must have when you use Partitioning and you attempt to upgrade to Oracle 19.9.0 or earlier. So please apply patch 31088341 before Upgrade to prevent ORA-1403 happening.

Apply Patch 31088341 before Upgrade to prevent ORA-1403

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What is the issue?

This applies to all 19c upgrades at least until 19.9.0.

The fix is included from 19.10.0 Release Update onward. So if you are upgrading to 19.10.0 or higher, you can stop reading here (thanks Pablo for the hint!).

You may see this error pattern in catupgrd0.log:

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ORA-1403 during TEXT / CONTEXT post upgrade

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Best Practice Flaws and Pitfalls 8

When you see an ORA-1403 during TEXT / CONTEXT post upgrade phase, regardless of using AutoUpgrade, dbupgrade, catctl or DBUA, no worries. Two people reported this to me this week. And my dear support colleague Klaus Herndl told me about the existing MOS note. But there is a bit more to explain, especially as the bug is non-public and the MOS note doesn’t tell you when this can happen.

ORA-1403 during TEXT / CONTEXT post upgrade

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What happens?

This is the error pattern you may see during the post upgrade phase when Oracle Text is installed in your database:

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