Patch 9239090: Applications Updates (au) : java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: There is no p

Hi,
Issue: When attempting to applying Patch 9239090,
the following error occurs.

ERROR
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java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: There is no process to read data written to a pipe

Cause:

apps/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/appsutil/jdk/jre/bin/java ...
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: There is no process to read data written to a pipe.
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:421)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:531)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:221)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtension.java:32)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:503)