ORA-02002 and ORA-00942 while upgrading OWM to 19c

This is a quick post about a problem that we have had while upgrading a DB to 19c.

At 91% of the upgrade, the OWM (Workspace Manager) upgrade was failing with this error error:

Indeed, executing the statement was leading consistently to this problem:

and we have had this result:

So, resuming the autoupgrade job was not a solution.

The view definition is:

but the package wmsys.ltUtil is wrapped, so no chance to understand what was happening.

As a quick fix, we have recompiled the binaries with mixed auditing:

and put the audit_trail=DB in the upgrade pfile (was NONE in this specific case).

After that, restarted the DB in upgrade mode using the same pfile.

After that, the view was giving no errors anymore and we resumed the autoupgrade job.

This is an old troubleshooting method that I call “Database Administration by guess”: I am not sure about the real cause, but the workaround just worked fine for us.

It would be interesting to know if anyone of you have had the same problem, and what were the auditing parameters in your case…

Ludovico