Bad magic number

[Deborah Weatherspoon]

Hello everyone,

I'm getting the following error message when I try to startup ORACLE 817.....

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Bad magic number for shared library: /u00/app/oracle/product/81
7/lib64/libclntsh.sl.8.0
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Exec format error
Abort(coredump)

Any help would be greatly appreciated....

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

Solution from Metalink:

Your SHLIB_PATH enviroment variable included the wrong directory: $ORACLE_HOME/lib64

As explained in the installation guide the enviroment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH should include the $ORACLE_HOME/lib64 directory, but the SHLIB_PATH should include ORACLE_HOME/lib.

Setting the enviroment variable SHLIB_PATH to $ORACLE_HOME/lib should solve this problem.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This can happen for a number of reasons but a very common one is mixing 32-bit and 64-bit libraries and code. It could also be the result of trying to use code for an Itanium box on a PA-RISC box.

Also if you copied the Oracle binaries from another machine, you might need to relink.

I'll assume that you are using svrmgr.
cd ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin
ldd svrmgrl

This will list all the dynamic libraries.
First, do a "file" command on svrmmgrl itself to make sure it is a PA-RISC executable and then do a "file" command on each of the shared libraries to make sure that they are the correct type as well.

[Sathish C]

pls check your oracle libs and the SHLIB_PATH variable that there no mis up of 32 and 64 bit libs of the same shared/dynamic links libs of oracle .