for sure ia64 is not the same instruction set as amd64
uses.  emt64 (intels variant set of amd64) is supposed
to be a diff story.  until veritas releases some
clients for amd64 linux, you may be out of luck, or
you may place yourself in a config were you dont get
any help from veritas or oracle.
--- Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:

> 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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