DB startup failed with error code 12

[Former Member]

Hi,

The system is at kernel patch 75,so I was applying the kernel patches by extracting the .SAR files into the /usr/sap/

4 ETW000 R3trans was called as follows: R3trans -x

4 ETW000 trace at level 2 opened for a given file pointer

4 ETW000 Wed Jan 2 19:28:44 2008 348 0.000348

4 ETW000 db_con_init called 30 0.000378

4 ETW000 create_con (con_name=R/3) 78 0.000456

4 ETW000 Loading DB library '/usr/sap/SDV/SYS/exe/run/dboraslib.so' ...

4 ETW000 65 0.000521

4 ETW000 load shared library (/usr/sap/SDV/SYS/exe/run/dboraslib.so), hdl 0

4 ETW000 50079 0.050600

4 ETW000 Library '/usr/sap/SDV/SYS/exe/run/dboraslib.so' loaded

4 ETW000 80 0.050680

4 ETW000 function DbSlExpFuns loaded from library /usr/sap/SDV/SYS/exe/run/dboraslib.so

4 ETW000 94 0.050774

4 ETW000 *** ERROR => Version mismatch between kernel (700.08) and DBSL shared library (ЯÐÛСÅÌ)

4 ETW000 200 0.050974

2EETW169 no connect possible: "maybe someone set invalid values for DIR_LIBRARY ('/usr/sap/SDV/SYS/exe/run') or dbms_type ('ORA')"

So,the DB is unable to start & as a result,SAP system isn't available.

Request your help.

Thanks

Sandipan

[markus_doehr2]

The problem is, that you should not use the same SAPCAR to extract in the same directory since it can't overwrite itself. You can use a relative path e. g.

cd \usr\sap\<SID>

mkdir newkernel

cd newkernel

\usr\sap\<SID>\exe\SAPCAR -xvf <kernel>

Then

ren exe exe.old

ren newkernel exe

Markus