Hi, we have been performing hot Oracle backups on a customers server using
RMAN and Veritas and all has been well. Recently however our customer
upgraded their version of Oracle to 8.1.7.4 whereas the version of Oracle
that is running on the Veritas Recovery Catalogue server is 8.1.7.0.

Since the upgrade all hot backups have failed with the folowing entries
being written to the bphdb log

RMAN-06008: connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: t1
RMAN-08500: channel t1: sid=10 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel t1: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle8 - Release 3.4GA
(030800)

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: t2
RMAN-08500: channel t2: sid=38 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel t2: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle8 - Release 3.4GA
(030800)

RMAN-03022: compiling command: backup
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command
RMAN-03013: command type: backup
RMAN-03014: implicit resync of recovery catalog failed
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-06550: line 1,
column 21:
PLS-00302: component 'LOCKFORCKPT' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
RMAN-06097: text of failing SQL statement: begin dbms_rcvcat . lockForckpt ;
end ;
RMAN-06099: error occurred in source file: krmk.pc, line: 2121

Recovery Manager complete.

I believe that this all points to a compatibility issue with the two Oracle
differing versions and am hoping that someone out there can confirm this??

Hope you can help.