Upgrade Express: ".. unable to obtain file status... No such file or directory"

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
We are trying to import our v18 data to v20. I run upgrade_util and choose:

2. Install customer data
then
1. Install Oracle data

It doesn't work, and the error messages in the log are:

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
ORA-39001: invalid argument value
ORA-39000: bad dump file specification
ORA-31640: unable to open dump file "/exlibris/aleph/upgrade_express_1901_2001/data/a20_1/abc50/files/dpdir/abc5001.dmp" for read
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3

Resolution:
A qualified DBA should perform the following changes in order to fix the problem:

select DIRECTORY_NAME,DIRECTORY_PATH from dba_directories where DIRECTORY_NAME LIKE 'AB%DIR';

Change from: /exlibris/aleph/upgrade_express_1901_2001/data/a20_1/abcXX/files/dpdir
Change to: /exlibris/aleph/upgrade_express_1901_2001/data/a18_2/abcXX/files/dpdir

The problem may have been a result of trying upgrade_util option 9 (transfer data between servers)...