IBM Security Guardium: ATAP Activation fails on Solaris: Couldn't insert instrumentation for $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libgeneric11.a

Symptom

You installed IBM Security Guardium S-TAP (STAP) on a Solaris database server. The STAP process is up and running, the KTAP module is loaded. You are now trying to activate the ATAP for an ORACLE instance. You made sure all the required prerequisites are met, including stopping the ORACLE instance. You get an error when you run the ATAP activate command.

The ATAP activate command you run looks like:

- for non Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) installations:

<guardium_base>/bin/guardctl --db-instance=<Oracle instance name> [optional-ATAP-parameters] activate

- for GIM installations:

<guardium_base>/modules/ATAP/current/files/bin/guardctl --db-instance=<Oracle instance name> [optional-ATAP-parameters] activate

where:

<guardium_base> is the directory where Guardium® software is installed. By default it is /user/local/guardium.

<Oracle instance name> is the Oracle instance name

[optional-ATAP-parameters]  are the ATAP parameters you can optionally set with this command

When you run the command, it starts running and show several output lines as it progress through the different steps in the activation. One of these steps will show as "Inserting instrumentation" and eventually under that section it shows this error almost at the end:

This is an example of the error output:

== start of sample error output ==

<several lines here>

Inserting instrumentation