When you copied the files, did you do so maintaining the file = permissions? Sounds like a permissions problem..... cp -rp -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tanel P=F5der Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:03 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: SP2-0750 Hi, Do your oracle user's environment variables ORACLE_HOME and ORA_NLS33 = still=20 correspond to actual directory locations? (maybe you didn't copy=20 oracle-users .profile over or smth). Also, check the file permissions. Tanel. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "sol beach" <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Oracle-L Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:33 PM Subject: SP2-0750 > Linux sdb1.hitbox.com 2.4.9-e.43enterprise #1 SMP Tue Jun 29 13:57:26 > EDT 2004 i686 unknown > > Oracle V9.2.0.4 > > I need help with a problem that has me baffled. > > The system had two drives; a 40 GB & an 80GB drive. The 80 GB was > mounted under /b. > /b holds ORACLE_HOME and all the DB datafiles. This drive filled up. > We got a 300GB disk. > We copied all the files from the 80 GB to the 300GB & mounted the > 300GB under /b. > > Now SQLPLUS won't start. > > <sdb1-oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/b:> sqlplus > 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=20 > directory > <sdb1-oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/b:> > > > find $ORACLE_HOME -name sp1us.msb -ls > 8519687 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 11264 Apr 26 2002 > /b/oracle/product/9.2.0/sqlplus/mesg/sp1us.msb > > So from above it shows ORACLE_HOME is set & the file does exist. > In theory nothing else on the system has changed. > Therefore I am at a loss WRT what needs to change to get sqlplus to = start. > Any clues, suggestions, or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l