They're going to take away my geek card for saying this, but I think I'm
starting to hate Linux.  Just too many variations.

Anyway, we're trying to get Oracle 9.2.0.4 64-bit backing-up using the RMAN
tool through the NB 5.1 database extentions on a Linux RH 3.0
(opteron-based) media server.

Filesystem backups are finally working once we solved the numerous QLogic vs
AMD architecture problems.  The problem persists, though, in that oracle
claims it can't load the media management library,
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so.  We've tried the 32 & 64-bit versions
and both seem the same (you have to spoof the installation script to make
the 64-bit install - there's no provision for a 64-bit Redhat installation).


A "file" of the library, both as root & as oracle, returns valid information
so the file is readable from a Unix POV.  The 64-bit libokk.so returns that
it's an IA-64 (itanium) compile but at this level we're hoping that 64-bit
is 64-bit.

The oracle error looks like this:

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on t1 channel at 09/22/2004 11:03:58
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library


Everything we can find on it suggests that the library can't be located.
Our DBA has tried every variant on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, specifying the library
in the RMAN command, etc. that seems possible.  

Anybody solved this one?

-M

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