Jean-Francois Malouin wrote at 13:28 -0500 on Dec 19, 2008:
 > I get this in taper debug files on a server running 2.6.0p2:
 > 
 > 1229661061.852610: taper: pid 15074 ruid 107 euid 107: start at Thu Dec 18 
 > 23:31:01 2008
 > 1229661061.898373: taper: taper: pid 15074 executable taper version 2.6.0p2
 > 1229661061.900205: taper: pid 15074 ruid 107 euid 107: rename at Thu Dec 18 
 > 23:31:01 2008
 > 1229661061.900655: taper: getcmd: START-TAPER 20081218233101
 > 1229661063.220627: taper: changer_query: changer return was 12 1 1
 > 1229661063.220682: taper: changer_query: searchable = 1
 > 1229661063.220692: taper: changer_find: looking for av24-1_left1_S00041L3 
 > changer is searchable = 1
 > 1229661063.220703: taper: changer_search: av24-1_left1_S00041L3
 > Can't load '/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/auto/Amanda/Types/libTypes.so'
 > for module Amanda::Types: 
 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/auto/Amanda/Types/libTypes.so: cannot open 
 > shared object file: No such file or
 > directory at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225.
 >  at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Types.pm line 11
 > Compilation failed in require at
 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Device.pm line 10.
 > Compilation failed in require at /opt/amanda-2.6.0p2/sbin/amdevcheck
 > line 4.
 > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/amanda-2.6.0p2/sbin/amdevcheck 
 > line 4.
 > 1229661188.511546: taper: device_read_label; mode = 0
 > ...
 > 
 > Should I be worried? I guess this is part of the new API
 > and all the swig stuff which I'm totally clueless about.
 > Is something not quite kosher in my local perl setup?

What's the output of ldd?
ldd /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/auto/Amanda/Types/libTypes.so

And if it doesn't exist in that location, then that's your problem.
If so, you can try to convince amanda/perl to look for it
elsewhere or install it to the expected location.