ORA-04021: While Revoking EXECUTE ON Privilege on DBMS_AQ Package (Doc ID 2267643.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 14, 2023

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Goal

Getting the ORA-04021 Error while trying to revoke the DBMS_AQ privilege:

SQL> Revoke EXECUTE ON DBMS_AQ from APPLSYS;

Revoke EXECUTE ON DBMS_AQ from APPLSYS
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-04021: timeout occurred while waiting to lock object.

This is locking error where Oracle uses a piece of memory which is shareable among all the database users calling the Library Cache. This maintains information about objects such as pl/sql packages, views, tables, etc.The object cannot be changed while in use. In order to modify the object, there is a lock in the library cache. A session will wait on the library cache as the object is in use. Until the lock is released, the error ora-4021 error.

Make sure that any AQ operations for the other schema users are stopped before attempting to revoke the execute privilege

Solution

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