How to correctly set the ORACLE_HOME variable on Ubuntu 9.x?

Question

I have the same problem as listed here: How to recover or change Oracle sysdba password although I did not lose the password, I entered it twice in the configure script orig

Answer 1

Usually the msb file not found problems are the result of an environment setting problem, but in your case I'm a little suspicious of the installation (I've never used the apt-get + configure method).

To check the sanity of the installation:

• ORACLE_HOME should be set to a directory path one level above the bin directory where sqlplus executable is found.
• There should some .msb files under $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/mesg
• There should be hundreds (not sure of the number with XE) of .msb files under $ORACLE_HOME (try find $ORACLE_HOME -name "*.msb" -print to show them)
• Your PATH should include $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
• All files under ORACLE_HOME should be owned by user:oracle group:dba.

Answer 2

After installing weblogic and forms server on a Linux machine we met some problems initializing sqlplus and tnsping. We altered the bash_profile in a way that the forms_home acts as the oracle home. It works fine, both commands (sqlplus and tnsping) are executable for user oracle

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/mnt/software/java/jdk1.7.0_71
export ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/Middleware/Oracle_FRHome1
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/Middleware/Oracle_FRHome1/lib
export FORMS_PATH=$FORMS_PATH:/oracle/Middleware/Oracle_FRHome1/forms:/oracle/Middleware/asinst_1/FormsComponent/forms:/appl/myapp:/home/oracle/myapp

Answer 3

You have to set LANG as well, look for files named 'sp1*.msb', and set for instance export LANG=us if you find a file name sp1us.msb. The error message could sure be better :)

Answer 4

Had the same problem,

All i had to do whas set the oracle shell variable:

. /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh

Sorterd!

Answer 5

Once I also got that same type of error.

I.E:

C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2>SQLPLUS SYS AS SYSDBA
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory

This error is occurring as the home path is not correctly set. To rectify this, if you are using Windows, run the below query:

C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2>SET ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2>SQLPLUS SYS AS SYSDBA

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Apr 16 13:17:42 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.

Or if you are using Linux, then replace set with export for the above command like so:

C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2>EXPORT ORACLE_HOME='C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2'
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2>SQLPLUS SYS AS SYSDBA

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Apr 16 13:17:42 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.

Answer 6

set <ORACLE_HOME> path variable

example

path ORACLE_HOME

value is C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server