Yes, that will work fine in most cases, key being that you can't have any users connected. If it doesn't work, the next level would be: - startup migrate - run catupgrd.sql (yes, even if you haven't upgraded) This will go over *everything* you can installed, even components not explicitly touched by catproc or catalog Done many times pre-11.2 releases Stefan ========================= Stefan P Knecht CEO & Founder s@xxxxxxxx 10046 Consulting GmbH Schwarzackerstrasse 29 CH-8304 Wallisellen Switzerland Phone +41-(0)8400-10046 Cell +41 (0) 79 571 36 27 info@xxxxxxxx http://www.10046.ch ========================= On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I had a problem with a sys package many years ago. Don't know why it > became invalid but it did and we could not manually compile it. At the time > I opened a TAR with Oracle on the subject because the package was wrapped > and therefore not something you can troubleshoot. Anyway, the support > analyst told me very clearly that one can run the basic install scripts > (catalog, catproc, etc...) at anytime without damaging the database as long > as one did it with no users connected to the database. (duh, that makes > sense). So we did over a night and presto the package was valid, our > problems cleared up and everyone was happy. Recently I had another problem > with the OLAP package and again files a TAR. Same answer, almost verbatim, > came back and yes it did fix the problem. > > > Dick Goulet > Senior Oracle DBA > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *John Dunn > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 01, 2010 4:15 AM > *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Reinstall sys packages > > Is there a quick way to re-install sys packages(other than complete > re-install/backups). I seem to have accidentially deleted some!! > > > > > ** > > *John * >