RDBMS package: DBMS_AQ doesnt exist

While upgrading OEM from 10.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.5 I got the following error:

[Text: Required RDBMS package: DBMS_AQ doesnt exist on this database. This package is needed for the proper functioning of the EM product. Please contact Oracle support to diagnose the RDBMS and once resolved, retry EM install.]

This was caused by the sys password not being the same on all instances. The root cause was that a DBA had changed the sys password on a single instance to do some maintenance and did not change it back. This caused sys connections to the rac database to succeed and fail intermittently.

The fix was to resync the sys password by running the following from sqlplus as the sysdba:
SQL> alter user sys identified by “correct_password”;
Once the passwords were correctly synced, the upgrade ran fine.

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