Symptom
- After updating operating system from Suse 15 SP05 to SP07, the application is unable to connect to the database.
- From ps -ef | grep dataserver output, the process is running normally.
- Per KB 1817091 - Could not load SYB library when connecting to a SAP ASE for BS/BW, the necessary environment variable settings have been confirmed to be under the desired path.
- The error message encountered from trans.log shows:
4 ETW000 R3trans was called as follows: R3trans -d
4 ETW000 trace at level 1 opened for a given file pointer
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Sat Dec 13 02:53:09 2025
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Loading DB library '/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run/dbsybslib.so' ...
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Library '/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run/dbsybslib.so' loaded
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Version of '/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run/dbsybslib.so' is "753.02", patchlevel (0.1400)
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] read_con_info_ssfs(): DBSL supports extended connect protocol
4 ETW000 ==> connect info for default DB will be read from ssfs
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Could not load SYB library libsybdrvodb.so. No database connection possible.
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Load of odbc driver for Sybase ASE failed. Connect terminated.
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Environment
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16.0 SP04
Product
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0.4
Keywords
suse 15 sp07, sybase library, libsybdrvodb.so, database connection error, missing library, libnsl.so.1, r3trans error, sap ase, ld_library_path, suse os update, sybase driver , KBA , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , Problem
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