ORA-01401 in SELECT statement !

Hi all,
We are facing a Strange problem.
Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 on Fedora Core6
AL32UTF8 Charset, NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS = CHAR
In a particular select statement, the database gives out ORA-01401 error:
ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
Here is the select statement:
SELECT   a.loc_nbr AS loc_nbr, a.loc_type_code AS loc_type_code,
         TO_CHAR (a.loc_eff_dt, 'yyyy-mm-dd') AS loc_eff_dt,
         TO_CHAR (a.loc_end_dt, 'yyyy-mm-dd') AS loc_end_dt,
         a.loc_nm AS loc_nm, a.loc_city AS loc_city,
         a.loc_st_prov AS loc_st_prov, b.acct_loc_nbr AS acct_loc_nbr,
         c.noofres AS routes
    FROM loc a,
         (SELECT   c.acct_loc_nbr AS acct_loc_nbr,
                   a.loc_sys_nbr AS loc_sys_nbr_loc
              FROM loc a, loc_attr c
             WHERE a.loc_ctry_code = '040'
               AND a.loc_co_code = '001'
               AND a.loc_type_code LIKE '03%'
               AND a.loc_eff_dt <= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
               AND a.loc_end_dt >= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
               AND a.loc_nm > '%'
               AND LPAD (a.loc_nbr, 38, '0') LIKE '%'
               AND a.loc_short_nm LIKE '%'
               AND a.loc_city LIKE '%'
               AND NVL (a.loc_st_prov, '     ') LIKE '%'
               AND c.loc_ctry_code = a.loc_ctry_code
               AND c.loc_co_code = a.loc_co_code
               AND c.loc_nbr = a.loc_nbr
               AND c.loc_type_code = a.loc_type_code
               AND c.loc_attr_eff_dt <= a.loc_eff_dt
               AND c.loc_attr_end_dt >= a.loc_eff_dt
          ORDER BY a.loc_nbr) b,
         (SELECT   COUNT (b.loc_nbr) AS noofres,
                   a.loc_sys_nbr AS loc_sys_nbr_rt
              FROM loc a, rt_loc_assgn b
             WHERE a.loc_ctry_code = '040'
               AND a.loc_co_code = '001'
               AND a.loc_type_code LIKE '03%'
               AND a.loc_eff_dt <= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
               AND a.loc_end_dt >= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
               AND a.loc_nm > '%'
               AND LPAD (a.loc_nbr, 38, '0') LIKE '%'
               AND a.loc_short_nm LIKE '%'
               AND a.loc_city LIKE '%'
               AND NVL (a.loc_st_prov, '     ') LIKE '%'
               AND b.ctry_code = a.loc_ctry_code
               AND b.co_code = a.loc_co_code
               AND b.loc_nbr = a.loc_nbr
               AND (   a.loc_eff_dt BETWEEN b.rt_loc_eff_dt AND b.rt_loc_end_dt
                    OR a.loc_end_dt BETWEEN b.rt_loc_eff_dt AND b.rt_loc_end_dt
               AND b.loc_svc_type_code = 'S'
          GROUP BY a.loc_sys_nbr) c
   WHERE a.loc_sys_nbr = b.loc_sys_nbr_loc(+)
     AND a.loc_sys_nbr = c.loc_sys_nbr_rt(+)
     AND a.loc_ctry_code = '040'
     AND a.loc_co_code = '001'
     AND a.loc_type_code LIKE '03%'
     AND a.loc_eff_dt <= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
     AND a.loc_end_dt >= TO_DATE ('2008-02-22', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
     AND a.loc_nm > '%'
     AND LPAD (a.loc_nbr, 38, '0') LIKE '%'
     AND a.loc_short_nm LIKE '%'
     AND a.loc_city LIKE '%'
     AND NVL (a.loc_st_prov, '     ') LIKE '%'
ORDER BY a.loc_nmWorkarounds:
- If we comment ORDER BY clause, the query works fine
- On line 49, if we surround loc_sys_nbr with TRIM() function, the query works fine
- On line 60, if we use NVL (a.loc_st_prov, '' ) LIKE '%', the query works fine
All these fields are CHAR() datatype.
Any idea what is happening here?
Thanks in advance :)

Thanks Satish,
We are hit by the bug 5874989 relating to impdp tool.

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6 /
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ERRORE alla riga 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 8:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of the following:
( - + case mod new not null others <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> avg
count current exists max min prior sql stddev sum variance
execute forall merge time timestamp interval date
<a string literal with character set specification>
<a number> <a single-quoted SQL string> pipe
<an alternatively-quoted string literal with character set specification>
<an alternativ
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PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol ")" when expecting one of the following:
. , @ ; for <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> group having intersect
minus order partition start subpartition union where connect
SQL> begin
2   if ( 0 in (select count(*) from dual) ) then
3    dbms_output.put_line('ok');
4   end if;
5 end;
6 /
if ( 0 in (select count(*) from dual) ) then
ERRORE alla riga 2:
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PLS-00405: subquery not allowed in this context
ORA-06550: line 2, column 2:
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LFLL
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I would rather use Notepad than store my data in SQL server. It just so happens that our product is released for SQL Server as well. Hence i did the testing.
>Is there a limit to the number of joins that can be performed in Oracle?
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