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  • February 25, 2026
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Hi community.

We recently configured the Oracle agent on a Linux machine, the instance is discovered and configured. But when checking the readiness, it gets the error below:

 

Connect string: /
SBT library path: /backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libobk.so
RMAN failed to load SBT library [RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on c1 channel at 02/24/2026 16:49:34 ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library ]. Please run Check Readiness on the client to diagnose and resolve the issues.

 

Checking the logs, I see the lines below:

 

39612 9abc 02/10 16:15:29 ### SetOracleBaseEnv(6236) - Failed to execute script [/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/Temp/orabase_39612.sh] returnCode [126] output [] errorStr [ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

bash: /backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/Temp//ulimitquery_67447.sh: Permission denied

 

Does anyone have faced the above errors?

Thank you.

Best answer by Hansel.Flores

Hi,

Just FYI, the issues has been resolved. The client had another backup tool (TSM) on it, which was using the library, preventing Commvault to proper configure the instance. Once the TSM agent was removed, we re-install the CV agent and it worked.

Thanks!

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CV_GK
Vaulter
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  • Vaulter
  • March 2, 2026

Hi ​@Hansel.Flores 

What is the CV, DB and OS version?

Did you set unix group during Oracle iDA install?


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  • March 13, 2026

Hi ​@CV_GK 

The CV version is 11.40.19

DB: Oracle 19.22

OS: RedHat 7.9

Below is a what I see in the RMAN log:

 

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RMAN> 
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
connected to target database: FMSP (DBID=1182894984)
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13> 14> 15> 16> 17> 18> 19> 20> 21> 22> 23> 24> 25> 26> 27> 28> 29> 30> 31> 32> 33> 34> 35> 36> 37> 38> 39> 40> 41> 42> 43> 44> 45> 46> 47> 
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/backup/catalyst/commvault/Base/libCvDllFilter.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on ch1 channel at 03/12/2026 16:44:28
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: 
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
Additional information: 4176
RMAN>

 

Not sure what is that lib libCvDllFilter.so about, any clue?


CV_GK
Vaulter
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  • June 5, 2026

Hi ​@Hansel.Flores 

Please share output of below command from oracle client's RMAN prompt

run

{

allocate channel c0 type 'sbt_tape';

release channel c0;

}

 


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  • August 5, 2026

Hi,

Just FYI, the issues has been resolved. The client had another backup tool (TSM) on it, which was using the library, preventing Commvault to proper configure the instance. Once the TSM agent was removed, we re-install the CV agent and it worked.

Thanks!