I am running into errors on AIX running hmcauth command

root@lpar:/root# oslevel -s
7200-05-01-2038
root@lpar1:/root# hmcauth
Could not load program hmcauth:
Could not load module /usr/lib/libhmc.a(shr.o).
Dependent module libxml2.a(libxml2.shr.o) could not be loaded.
Could not load module libxml2.a(libxml2.shr.o).
System error: No such file or directory
Could not load module hmcauth.
Dependent module /usr/lib/libhmc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
root@lpar:/root# echo $LIBPATH

root@lpar:/root# rpm -qa | grep libxml
libxml2-2.9.9-1.ppc
root@lpar:/root#

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Rizwan
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1) Check the archive:
# ar -tv /usr/lib/libxml2.a
rwxr-xr-x 0/0 5080332 Jan 07 11:45 2016 libxml2.shr.o
rwxr-xr-x 0/0 5080316 Jan 05 13:47 2016 libxml2.so.2

2) Check the following symlink. This should be linked as follows:
# ls -al  /usr/lib/libxml2.a
/usr/lib/libxml2.a -> /usr/ccs/lib/libxml2.a

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Jan Harris
AIX Development Support (Liaison to the AIX Toolbox for Open Source)
IBM (Contract)
Austin TX
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 05, 2022 08:18 PM
From: Rizwan
Subject: Issues with hmcauth command on AIX7.2

I am running into errors on AIX running hmcauth command

root@lpar:/root# oslevel -s
7200-05-01-2038
root@lpar1:/root# hmcauth
Could not load program hmcauth:
Could not load module /usr/lib/libhmc.a(shr.o).
Dependent module libxml2.a(libxml2.shr.o) could not be loaded.
Could not load module libxml2.a(libxml2.shr.o).
System error: No such file or directory
Could not load module hmcauth.
Dependent module /usr/lib/libhmc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
root@lpar:/root# echo $LIBPATH

root@lpar:/root# rpm -qa | grep libxml
libxml2-2.9.9-1.ppc
root@lpar:/root#

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Rizwan
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