Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??

From: <babette.turnerunderwood_at_hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:34:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D86C6.20031202083426@fatcity.com>

We started having a weird problem that looks like some kind of data dictionary corruption.

My first choice is to run catalog / catproc. This did nothing to resolve the problem.

Why am I able to describe an object, but get ORA-00904 when I try to select from the table...

SQL> desc ispownre3.individual_names;
Name                                      Null?    Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ------------------
INTERNAL_IDENTIFIER                                NUMBER(12)
TITLE_CD                                           NUMBER(3)
. . .

SQL> select * from ispownre3.individual_names;
select * from ispownre3.individual_names
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: invalid column name

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