HANA failed to start after updating to SLES 15 SP6 from SLES 15 SP5

[OhMySAP]

HANA DB was working fine until I updated my SLES 15 from SP5 to SP6. This is on ppc64le

Error when doing HDB start:  process hdbdaemon HDB Daemon not running

When looking at the daemon logs, I see this:

[21152]{-1}[-1/-1] 2024-10-15 11:11:51.364509 i Daemon DaemonHandle.cpp(00340) : Process 'hdbnameserver', pid 21174 exited because it caught signal 11 with core
[21152]{-1}[-1/-1] 2024-10-15 11:11:51.364542 i Daemon DaemonHandle.cpp(00367) : Program 'hdbnameserver' failed during startup. Service is essential, shutting down all instances

I could not find much on the web when searching for this error. Is there any library that I need to manually install/update using zypper?

More info on system:

sh-4.4$ ./HDB version
HDB version info:
version: 2.00.059.04.1655794895
branch: fa/hana2sp05
machine config: linuxppc64le
git hash: 1cdbd35ec7472ab5d22a0bac02725a02dc3038f9
git merge time: 2022-06-21 09:01:35
weekstone: 0000.00.0
cloud edition: 0000.00.00
compile date: 2022-06-21 09:10:03
compile host: lsh35280le
compile type: rel

OS Info using: uname -a
Linux p10sles025 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 1 10:54:01 UTC 2024 (ea7c56d) ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

[dirkhoffmann]

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[dirkhoffmann]

You need to look at the namerserver trace to understand why the nameserver exited. However, I just checked the relevant SAP Note 2235581 and there it is mentioned that SLES 15 SP6 is only supported starting revision 59.12 but you are on 59.04. Before looking further, you should update your HDB version and then test again.

[OhMySAP]

That was it. After patching HANA DB, all worked well. Thank you.

[gbertrand]

Good to know.. The original solution was provided by dirkhoffmann. I just added the additional details.