According to the SAP Product Availability Matrix for SAP HANA Platform Edition, the supported operating systems are SLES 11 SP1 and SP2.
For those that are running the latest SAP HANA revisions on the earlier SLES 11 SP1, you may notice that when running SAP HANA command line tools on the SLES server a message is returned:
/lib64/libuuid.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/sap/DB1/HDB01/exe/libhdbbasement.so)
hdbbackupdiag -h
hdbbackupdiag: /lib64/libuuid.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/sap/DB1/HDB01/exe/libhdbbasement.so)
Usage: hdbbackupdiag [options] [-d <directory>] { -b <backup> | -c <backup catalog> }
hana:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 1
The file libhdbbasement.so is linked against libuuid. The version included with SLES 11 SP1 = 1.41.1
hana:~ # find /usr/sap -name libhdbbasement.so
/usr/sap/shared/DB1/exe/linuxx86_64/HDB_1.00.70.00.386119_1342680/libhdbbasement.so
hana:~ # ldd /usr/sap/shared/DB1/exe/linuxx86_64/HDB_1.00.70.00.386119_1342680/libhdbbasement.so | grep lib uuid
libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f4ea8aed000)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2012-06-04 15:08 /lib64/libuuid.so.1 -> libuuid.so.1.2
To solve this issue, you need to upgrade libuuid to the SP2 version using YaST or zypper
hana:~ # ls -l /lib64/libuuid.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 23 16:10 /lib64/libuuid.so.1 -> libuuid.so.1.3.0
hana:~ # rpm -qa | grep libuuid
libuuid1-2.16-6.13.1