Hi listers, I am stuck with the error that I do not know how to resolve: i am trying to make an import using data pump and it fails. Please, look below. I search google and implemented all suggestions: 10:31:08 db_manager@prod8> select * from dba_directories 10:31:20 2 where DIRECTORY_NAME='DATA_PUMP_PROD8'; OWNER DIRECTORY_NAME ------------------------------ ------------------------------ DIRECTORY_PATH ------------------------------------------------------------------ SYS DATA_PUMP_PROD8 */u04/exports/prod8* [oracle@tds exports]$ ls -l total 452 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 4096 Oct 21 09:33 lumitest *drwxrwxrwx * 2 oracle dba 4096 Jan 15 10:25 prod8 [oracle@tds prod8]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Jan 15 10:26:31 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options * SQL> GRANT READ,WRITE ON DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_PROD8 TO SYSTEM; Grant succeeded.* SQL> SQL> SQL> exit [oracle@tds prod8]$ impdp system/**** directory=data_pump_prod8 full=y include=table Import: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production on Friday, 15 January, 2010 10:27:23 Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options *ORA-39002: invalid operation ORA-31694: master table "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01" failed to load/unload ORA-31644: unable to position to block number 1048229 in dump file "/u04/exports/prod8/expdat.dmp" * I cannot find what else do I need to do in order to make this import happen.. Can you please share some hints or tricks? Thanks before hand, M