Chadi, Did the user get dropped? If not, can you go through and drop the users objects manually? And then drop the user? It is obviously an Oracle problem. But if you can find a workaround, then you can chalk it up to experience. Personally, I do not drop a user that has a bunch of objects. I prefer to drop all the objects first and then the user just for this reason. Hope this helps. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Chadi Kassan [mailto:chadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:01 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Drop user fails with ORA-01418 Hi everyone, I'm pretty sure, many had run into this problem before and can provide some help. When I try to drop one of my user, I get the following: SQL> drop user theuser cascade; ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01418: specified index does not exist What index it's talking about, metalink says this is related to some data corruption in data dictionnary, but doesn't provide a solution. We run Oracle Database 10g Release 10.1.0.3.0 on Linux. Thank you. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l