The field PARAMETER.CONFIG could not be located or read

Symptoms

You are encountering the following error while trying to start/stop the apache
using adapcctl.sh


"The field PARAMETER.CONFIG could not be located or read."

The adapcctl.log carries the following errors:

Cannot read value from field PARAMETER.CONFIG

Cause: The field PARAMETER.CONFIG could not be located or read.

Changes

You upgraded to RDBMS 9.2.0.4 from RDBMS 8.0.6, but the instance was fine for a couple of days after the upgrade. This problem suddenly cropped up.

Cause

Your guest user is end-dated
That is the sole reason you are getting this error.

Fix

Back up your FND_USER TABLE

Run the following command update fnd_user set end_date=null where user_name='GUEST';

Retest with adapcctl.sh


Reference: 298143.1