How to fix the Oracle error ORA-06516: PL/SQL: the Probe packages do not exist or are invalid?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-06516: PL/SQL: the Probe packages do not exist or are invalid with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-06516: PL/SQL: the Probe packages do not exist or are invalid

Reason for the Error ORA-06516: PL/SQL: the Probe packages do not exist or are invalid

A Probe operation, probably an attempt to initialize the ORACLE server to debug PL/SQL, could not be completed because the Probe packages were not loaded or have become invalid.

How to fix the Error ORA-06516: PL/SQL: the Probe packages do not exist or are invalid ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

DBA should load the Probe packages. This can be done by running the pbload.sql script supplied with the RDBMS.