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sawserver won’t start up - resolved

Published Apr 1, 2009 by in Obiee, Sawserver, Unix at https://rmoff.net/2009/04/01/sawserver-wont-start-up-resolved/

(See here and here for history)

I edited the shell script which is eventually called by run-saw.sh to start the sawserver, (OracleBI)/setup/sawserver.sh, to use trus:
Comment out the final line:

$SASAWSERVER

and insert as a new line:

tusc -fepan -o /tmp/sawserver_tusc.out $SASAWSERVER

The output of trus ended with this:

open("/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) ……… ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/app/oracle/product/obiee/server/Bin64/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) . ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/app/oracle/product/obiee/web/bin64/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) …. ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/app/oracle/product/obiee/odbc/lib64/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) … ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) …………………………. ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/lib/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) …………………………….. ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) ……… ERR#2 ENOENT
open("/opt/aCC/lib/hpux64/libstd_v2.so.1", O_RDONLY|0x800, 0) ……………….. ERR#2 ENOENT

which showed sawserver failing to find libstd_v2.so.1. The helpful chap on my SR at Oracle said this should be in /usr/lib/hpux64 (which it is) and so to add this to the SHLIB_PATH variable:

export SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/hpux64

If SHLIB_PATH already has a value then use the syntax ${SHLIB_PATH}:/usr/lib/hpux64 or use this anyway and set +u to stop the shell barfing on the unknown variable

Having updated SHLIB_PATH sawserver now starts up fine on this server now! w00t!

But – why did this just start happening now?? The same servers with the same obiee installation and same obiee configuration worked without the SHLIB_PATH being set last week, so why do they need it now?


Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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