Monday, November 22, 2010

DBAN *ERROR /dev/sda (process crash)

So I was using DBAN 2.2.6 beta to wipe the drives on a Dell PowerEdge 860. After typing "autonuke," DBAN would load, but instead of starting the wipe I would get these errors: DBAN finished with non-fatal errors.*ERROR /dev/sdb (process crash)*ERROR /dev/sda (process crash)Press and hold power button to shut down When I loaded DBAN manually (by pressing enter at the boot prompt instead of typing "autonuke"), I would see an "unrecognized device" in the device list. I finally figured out what it was: the DRAC had set up some kind of virtual...

Thursday, November 18, 2010

UnsatisfiedLinkError exception loading native library: njni11

So... I was working on automating an Oracle 11.1 db installation on a RHEL 5.5 machine. I automated the software install, but when running dbca to create the database, I kept getting this error: UnsatisfiedLinkError exception loading native library: njni11 I googled it, but all I found were posts on how I needed to make sure I had installed the necessary packages, in particular libaio and libaio-devel. Well, I had all of those installed but I was still getting the error. It finally hit me: I was automating everything (using Puppet), and...