To abort forcefully running or failed ADOP session manually in R12.2.4

This error i faced recently , one of the older patch session was failed and was not getting aborted.
I tried
adop phase=abort
adop phase=apply abandon=yes patches=123456

nothing worked. Then i tried following workaround ,and guess what i came out of failing  adop_session_id and my patch cycle again started working normally.

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1) Take a backup copy of the table ad_adop_sessions.

2) Connect to sqlplus as user apps and run
SQL> update ad_adop_sessions 
set abort_status = 'Y', 
status = 'C' 
where adop_session_id = 36; 

3) Then try to start a new adop session with
$ adop phase = prepare
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Note: Try above only after trying all possiblities.