RMAN (Catalog) Error: ORA-06508 – “RMAN.DBMS_RCVMAN”
Posted by FatDBA on August 22, 2012
Error Recieved while trying to access Catalog:
[oracle@localhost admin]$ rman catalog rman/oracle90@orcl
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 – Production on Wed Aug 22 00:56:29 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to recovery catalog database
ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-04067: not executed, package body “RMAN.DBMS_RCVMAN” does not exist
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: “RMAN.DBMS_RCVMAN”
Resolution: Run ‘Upgrade Catalog’ command to fix the problem with Recovery Manager.
RMAN> upgrade catalog;
recovery catalog owner is RMAN
enter UPGRADE CATALOG command again to confirm catalog upgrade
RMAN> upgrade catalog;
recovery catalog upgraded to version 10.02.00.00
DBMS_RCVMAN package upgraded to version 10.02.00.00
DBMS_RCVCAT package upgraded to version 10.02.00.00
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
[oracle@localhost admin]$ rman catalog rman/oracle90@orcl
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 – Production on Wed Aug 22 00:59:20 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to recovery catalog database
RMAN>
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