ORA-00942 on ALTER TABLE TRUNCATE PARTITION

I'm trying to truncate a partition as the schema owner using the following syntax:

alter table schema.TABLE_NAME truncate partition PARTION_NAME reuse storage;

I get the following messages in reply:

ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

The database level is 10.2.0.4

I did a search on metalink but nothing was found.