F: PROCEDURE DOESN'T EXIST

Question

I am trying to access an existing application using the following URL: http://mydev-devlp/pls/apex/f?p=4550:1:65739335059324 and am receiving the following error:
f: PROCEDURE DOESN'T EXIST
DAD name: apex
PROCEDURE : f
URL : http://mydev-devlp.myed.edu:80/pls/apex/f?p=4550:1:65739335059324
PARAMETERS :
===========
p:
4550:1:65739335059324
ENVIRONMENT:
============
PLSQL_GATEWAY=WebDb
GATEWAY_IVERSION=3
SERVER_SOFTWARE=Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.2 Oracle-HTTP-Server
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
SERVER_PORT=80
SERVER_NAME=mydev-devlp.myed.edu
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
QUERY_STRING=p=4550:1:65739335059324
PATH_INFO=/f
SCRIPT_NAME=/pls/apex
REMOTE_HOST=
REMOTE_ADDR=10.6.1.81
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_PROTOCOL=HTTP
REMOTE_USER=APEX_PUBLIC_USER
ORACLE_SSO_USER=
OSSO_IDLE_TIMEOUT_EXCEEDED=
OSSO_USER_GUID=
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH=
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
HTTP_HOST=mydev-devlp
HTTP_ACCEPT=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-silverlight, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET=
HTTP_COOKIE=
HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE=
HTTP_REFERER=
HTTP_SOAPACTION=
HTTP_ORACLE_ECID=1226441474:10.1.1.62:1072:2784:670,0
HTTP_ORACLE_CACHE_VERSION=
HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=
WEB_AUTHENT_PREFIX=
DAD_NAME=apex
DOC_ACCESS_PATH=docs
DOCUMENT_TABLE=wwv_flow_file_objects$
PATH_ALIAS=
REQUEST_CHARSET=UTF8
REQUEST_IANA_CHARSET=UTF-8
SCRIPT_PREFIX=/pls
HTTP_IF_MATCH=
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=
SOAP_BODY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_CLASS=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_ORIENTATION=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE_MAXDOCSIZE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_DEVICE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ORIG_ACCEPT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ORIG_USER_AGENT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCALE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_NAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_DISPLAYNAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_USERKIND=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_AUTHKIND=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_DEVICEID=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLINE1=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLINE2=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESSLASTLINE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_BLOCK=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_CITY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COMPANYNAME=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COUNTY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_STATE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_POSTALCODE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_POSTALCODEEXT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_COUNTRY=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_TYPE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_X=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_USER_LOCATION_Y=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_SERVICE_HOME_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_SERVICE_PARENT_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_HOME_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_MODULE_CALLBACK_URL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_MODULE_CALLBACK_LABEL=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_USER=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_SUBID=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_AUTH=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_DEVICE=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_LANG=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_CACHE_ENCRYPT=
HTTP_X_ORACLE_ASSERT_USER=
To my knowledge, nothing has changed since the last time I used Application Express (about 10 days ago?).
Cheers,
Sunny

Answer 1

If you do this in SQL*Plus,
alter procedure f compile;
show errors
...what do you see?
You can also connect as SYS and:
set serveroutput on
exec validate_apex;
That will attempt to compile anything that isn't valid.
I am now wondering if we could copy all of the objects from the user "FLOWS_030100", where the "F" procedure lives, from development down to "FLOWS_030100" in production?I don't know how you would do that or what that means.
I tried to recompile all of the packages and ended up with 13 errors and now NONE of the procedures undetr "FLOWS_030100" are compiling.Using "alter ... compile" -type DDL and the show errors command, you should be able to gather more information which you are welcome to share here.
Scott