Common Potential Errors

This section presents several kinds of errors you might make in running external procedures.

Calls to External Functions

Can't Find DLL
ORA-06520: PL/SQL: Error loading external library
ORA-06522: Unable to load DLL
ORA-06512: at "<name>", line <number>
ORA-06512: at "<name>", line <number>
ORA-06512: at line <number>

You may have specified the wrong path or wrong name for the DLL file, or you may have tried to use a DLL on a network mounted drive (a remote drive).

RPC Time Out

ORA-28576: lost RPC connection to external procedure agent
ORA-06512: at "<name>", line <number>
ORA-06512: at "<name>", line <number>
ORA-06512: at line <number>

This error might occur after you exit a debugger while debugging a shared library or DLL. Simply disconnect your client and reconnect to the database.