slightly OT, appears to be Sun OS issue

I am running into something really strange in one of our Solaris zones.  I
expect that the problem stems from someone not entering the Oracle home path
correctly on installation, since it appears to have an extra '/' in the
Oracle home name, but I have never seen this elsewhere, and cannot figure
out how to fix it.  Its probably easier for you to look at my steps below
than try to explain it further.  For some reason, I have to have a '//' in
the Oracle home name to connect to the ASM instance:

kerbera@dwprdap01-> sudo su - oracle
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
You have mail.
oracle@dwprdap01-> ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/asm
oracle@dwprdap01-> export ORACLE_HOME
oracle@dwprdap01-> PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
oracle@dwprdap01-> export PATH
oracle@dwprdap01-> ORACLE_SID=+ASM
oracle@dwprdap01-> export ORACLE_SID
oracle@dwprdap01-> echo $ORACLE_HOME
/oracle/product/asm
oracle@dwprdap01-> sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Oct 11 07:16:32 2010

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.

*Connected to an idle instance.*

SQL> exit
Disconnected
oracle@dwprdap01-> echo $ORACLE_HOME
/oracle/product/asm
oracle@dwprdap01-> exit
kerbera@dwprdap01-> sudo su - oracle
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
You have mail.

oracle@orap01-> echo $ORACLE_HOME
/oracle/product/db
oracle@orap01-> ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product//asm
oracle@orap01-> export ORACLE_HOME
oracle@orap01-> PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
oracle@orap01-> export PATH
oracle@orap01-> ORACLE_SID=+ASM
oracle@orap01-> export ORACLE_SID
oracle@orap01-> echo $ORACLE_HOME
/oracle/product//asm
oracle@orap01-> sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Oct 11 07:19:05 2010

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.


*Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit
Production*
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> select instance_name from v$instance;

INSTANCE_NAME
----------------
+ASM

SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release
10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
oracle@orap01-> echo $ORACLE_HOME
/oracle/product//asm
oracle@orap01->



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Andrew W. Kerber

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