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ORA-05738: Operation Not Allowed On The Oracle Internal Table (Doc ID 2763859.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.6.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ORA-05738: operation not allowed on the Oracle internal table.

Changes

 Performing a rollback of a new Release Update and the datapatch log file contains ORA-5738 on internal blockchain tables.

 

truncate table sys.blockchain_table$
                  *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-05738: operation not allowed on the Oracle internal table

truncate table sys.blockchain_table_epoch$
                  *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-05738: operation not allowed on the Oracle internal table

truncate table sys.blockchain_table_chain$
                  *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-05738: operation not allowed on the Oracle internal table

update sys.tab$ set spare7=NULL where spare7 is NOT NULL
          *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-05738: operation not allowed on the Oracle internal table

Cause

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