1940732 - Upgrade terminated with error "sapcpe exited with 3" in the phase MAIN_SWITCH/SUBMOD_SWITCH_KERNEL/KX_SWITCH

Upgrade using Software Update Manager (SUM) fails in phase MAIN_SWITCH/SUBMOD_SWITCH_KERNEL/KX_SWITCH with the following error:

SAPup.log

CURRENTPHASE MAIN_SWITCH/SUBMOD_SWITCH_KERNEL/KX_SWITCH
...started at 20131108150747
# Using phase log file 'KX_SWITCH.LOG'.
..finished at 20131108150758 with status ABORTED.
# Error message set: 'Process /usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/nuc/linuxx86_64/sapcpe exited with 3, see

'/usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/abap/log/SAPCPE.OUT' for details'
...begin dialog at 20131108150801
...end dialog at 20131108153016

KX_SWITCH.LOG

3 ETQ399 Replicating kernel to '/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS02/exe'.
3 ETQ399 20131108150758: PID 31800 execute
'/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/nuc/linuxx86_64/sapcpe pf=/sapmnt/<SID>/profile/DVEBMGS02_sap01761' , output written to
'/usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/abap/log/SAPCPE.OUT'.
3 ETQ399 20131108150758: PID 31800 exited with status 3 (time:
0.000/0.012/0.008 real/usr/sys)
1 ETQ399 SYSMANDEBUG_ASCSSYSNUM: ''.
1 ETQ399 SYSMANDEBUG_ASCSHOST: ''.
1EETQ399 Last error code set is 'Process
/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/nuc/linuxx86_64/sapcpe exited with 3, see
'/usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/abap/log/SAPCPE.OUT' for details'
1EETQ204 Upgrade phase "KX_SWITCH" aborted with severe errors ("20131108150758")

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