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Summary



When manually applying a patch, the installer fails with the following error: Exception message: invalid LOC header (bad signature).

Symptoms



The following displays in the installer log:

Tue Sep 18 09:12:54 CEST 2012 File extraction for CLIENT patch files

Tue Sep 18 09:12:54 CEST 2012 Failed in extracting file:read/write - patchroot/reloc/client/bin/JB/JItest

Tue Sep 18 09:12:54 CEST 2012 Exception message: invalid LOC header (bad signature)

Tue Sep 18 09:12:54 CEST 2012 Failure during file extraction - will rollback

Tue Sep 18 09:12:54 CEST 2012 ROLLING BACK EXTRACTED PATCH FILES



Resolution



The patch cannot be extracted due to a failed cyclic redundancy check (CRC). Download the patch again.