this ended up being due to a user whose default tablespace no longer existed in the original database. sorry for the waste of bandwidth. On 9/24/05, Chris Stephens <cstephens16@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I take a full export of the database on the windows machine. the log > file contains no errors. on linux i created the database and all the > tablespaces that are present on the old database. i do a full import. > ...all the users get created but only some of the objects get created > for some of the users. the import log is full of errors that users > alread exist (but they didn't). the last entry is: -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l