3206528 - SUM: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to get the length of a null array loaded from local variable 'spStacks'

When applying a java patch using the manually prepared directory this error appears in the CREATE_QUEUE step:

java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to get the length of a null array loaded from local variable 'spStacks'

The log CREATE-QUEUE_**.LOG  shows some information similar to this one:

<!--LOGHEADER[START]/-->
<!--HELP[Manual modification of the header may cause parsing problem!]/-->
<!--LOGGINGVERSION[2.0.7.1006]/-->
<!--NAME[/temporal_EC1/SUM_SP28/SUM/sdt/log/SUM/CREATE-QUEUE_04.LOG]/-->
<!--PATTERN[CREATE-QUEUE_04.LOG]/-->
<!--FORMATTER[com.sap.tc.logging.TraceFormatter(%d [%6s]: %m)]/-->
<!--ENCODING[UTF8]/-->
<!--FILESET[0, 20, 10485760]/-->
<!--PREVIOUSFILE[CREATE-QUEUE_04.19.LOG]/-->
<!--NEXTFILE[CREATE-QUEUE_04.1.LOG]/-->
<!--LOGHEADER[END]/-->
May 23, 2022 12:57:44 PM [Info  ]: Target version 740 is higher or equal to 730, SP stack will be used to determine new active usages.
May 23, 2022 12:57:44 PM [Error ]: The following problem has occurred during step execution: java.lang.NullPointerException: while tryin
g to get the length of a null array loaded from local variable 'spStacks'.

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