Objects Are Invalidated After Datapump Job Is Named As 'SYS' (Doc ID 473585.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

Objects owned by SYS are invalidated after a datapump export or import job ran.  Running utlrp.sql script to recompile the invalid objects fails with:

DECLARE 
* 
ERROR at line 1: 
ORA-4063: package body "SYS.UTL_RECOMP" has errors 
ORA-6508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "SYS.UTL_RECOMP" 
ORA-6512: at line 4 

Cause

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