ORA-604 & ORA-1555 Rollback Segment 0 With Name "System" Too small

(Doc ID 862469.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 23, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 24-Aug-2017***

Symptoms

You encounter the following errors when performing a database operation, such as dropping a tablespace:

ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 0 with name "SYSTEM" too small

Changes

The patch for <bug:7313166> has been applied.

Cause

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