WebLogic Server (WLS) Thread Dump fails with "libstackdump.so: wrong ELF data format: ELFDATA2MSB"

(Doc ID 1317627.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 05, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Weblogic Server - Version: 8.1 to 8.1]
Oracle Solaris on x86 (32-bit)

Symptoms

On Oracle Solaris 10 in x86 (32-bit), version 8.1, when attempting to generate a thread dump using weblogic.Admin:

java weblogic.Admin -url t3://<url>:<port> THREAD_DUMP

the following error occurs:

cannot load libary 'stackdump': java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /path/to/weblogic-8.1.5/server/lib/solaris/libstackdump.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: /path/to/ weblogic-8.1.5/server/lib/solaris/libstackdump.so: wrong ELF data format: ELFDATA2MSB

Cause

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