I want to open SQL*Plus from CMD
When I try to open it using this command in Sqlplus I encounter this dialog error message:
Message file UTILITY_MEG\spw<lang>.msb not found.
after I close dialog message here is a copy of CMD:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Abo-Khaled>sqlplus
Error 14 initializing SQL*Plus
Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory
C:\Users\Abo-Khaled>
I used these commands to solve the problem:
set oracle_home=C:\app\Abo-Khaled\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\
set oracle_sid=orcl
BUT that doesn't solve the problem.
Notes:
When I use SQL*Plus directly I can login without any problem. but I need to login using CMD.
I am using oracle 11g in windows 7
About one month ago I hadn't this problem with SQL*Plus.
I just had this issue and was able to resolve it by adjusting my windows path environment variable.
Make sure the path to the bin directory containing the correct sqlplus.exe comes first in the Windows path environment variable.
When you use sqlplus.exe in a command prompt, you may be executing a different sqlplus.exe than intended.
In my case, I also have the Oracle middleware installed which has its own sqlplus.exe which was being referenced and throwing the "Message file" error.
Once I put the path to the database home's bin directory first in the path variable, the issue went away.
You need to set the NLS_LANG parameter in your command prompt. e.g. set nls_lang=ENGLISH
For the newer database 12c and up, I did not need an oracle_home variable. If you have one, then try deleting to see if the "Message file sp1.msb not found" goes away. This has been my experience of installing an Oracle DB on a desktop/laptop.
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I need your help concerning an issue with oracle 11g installation, i installed it while connected to a domain account (and still connected to it), after installation complete and a reboot i tried to startup Oracle using windows command line:
>sqlplus /nolog
>connect sys /as sysdba
>startup
After the startup command i get the following error:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-01565: error in identifying file ORA-27041: unable to open file
C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\dbs/spfileXE.ora
When i manually went to spfile and file locations, i didn't find anyone of them.
now i am looking for a method to generate of create these files without having to reinstall Oracle 11g. Any ideas please?
PS : i have windows 10.
Thanks in advance
Problem solved, while looking for pfile i was looking for something like PFile.ora, have just found that it is named init.ora, sounds stupid but yeah :D
Here are the details:
I installed the oracle instant client 11.2.0.2.0 from the OTN download page on a windows 7 64 bit vm (vmware).
I am trying to to connect to a remote oracle database, and I can successfully connect with one program using TNS, but not with SQL*Plus and other applications.
Trying to connect with SQL*Plus, using schema#servicename, password, etc, gives the above error.
To connect via SQL Developer, normally I would use the basic connection info and not rely on tnsnames, but trying a normal connection gives me: io error: unknown host specified. SQL Developer can successfully connect and query database if i use the TNS protocol.
Trying from other programs gives me the same error I got with SQL*Plus. Same when trying with the service name from tnsnames.
This is obviously quite frustrating for it to work one way and not the other. I followed all the normal instructions for using the instant client, the directory with instantclient has been addded to the PATH, a TNS_ADMIN entry has also been created, with the directory to the tnsnames.ora file
Well, on a whim, I went to changing everything in my setup to match an windows 2003 server that i had setup with instant client before. The main changes were putting the instant client in a folder at the root of the drive (not program files/oracle/etc), but c:/oracle, i know ive seen other posts saying that oracle was particular about characters in the directory path, maybe spaces are a no-no too?
I also add a bunch more environmental variables, anythign that was on the other machine, ORACLE_HOME (to root of instance), SQL_PATH (same), and added the root of the directory to the PATH system variable, not just the folder with the instantclient files. Anyways, I'm happy its working, anyone one of these changes could have been it though-
You may use ProcessMonitor and look at what your sqlplus process is doing. In my case TNS_ADMIN was correctly defined but, by mistake, my tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora had a stupid ".txt" extension, added by default by notepad when I created those files. And because "Windows Explorer" has the "Hide extensions for known file types" option set by default, the naming error wasn't obvious at all.
I installed the 12.1 instant client. For me, the problem was solved by creating \network\admin\tnsnames.ora file. Here's the PowerShell I used:
$source = "C:\Users\USER1\Desktop\tnsnames.ora"
$target = "C:\oracle\product\12.1.0\client_1\network\admin"
mkdir $target
copy-item $source $target
When i open sqlplus it shows
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
Generally speaking, you don't want to set ORACLE_HOME in a Windows environment - it's handled in the registry, and it's given me grief the times I've set it. Here is an Oracle Doc on Oracle Homes.
How many Oracle installations are on this computer?
Ancient question with hopefully a helpful new answer! Ready?
First, as others have said, you must set your ORACLE_HOME (e.g. export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/instantclient_12_2), but secondly, and oddly, you can't be cd'd into the oracle home when you run sqlplus!
$ export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/instantclient_12_2
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
$ sqlplus
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
SP2-0667: Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory
$ cd /
$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Jan 3 11:02:36 2018
Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter user-name:
Whoaaa mind blown. It's... a feature?
If ORACLE_HOME & ORACLE_BASE are all properly set,
Make sure that someone does not delete some installation folders/files. I experienced similar problem, in one of my customers, Half of the folders in OraHome had been accidently deleted by the IT Guy.
In my case, ORACLE_HOME in my windows registry was changed when I installed another Oracle tool (Workflow builder in my case), hence I got the following error. After I modified it back to where the Oracle SQLPLUS product was installed, it worked fine. We don't need to set ORACLE_HOME in the environment variables, the system would read it form the registry.
Before:
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
SP2-0667: Message file sp1.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory
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 originally, and then when I went to login (localhost:8080/apex, password not accepted.
I don't have anything in the database, I just want to install and use Oracle-XE. I have tried apt-get removing it twice and reinstalling, but if I try to run /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure again and I get "Oracle Database 10g Express Edition is already configured" despite the second time removing any folders I could find for Oracle XE.
I tried running sqlplus "/ as sysdba" but all I get is:
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
I tried setting the variable via export. (also tried set).
Tried: export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/sqlplus
and all the subdirectories of that. Same error every time.
What is the ORACLE_HOME supposed to be set to? The only reference I have seen either just say general or say the above up to the version number then "/db_1". I do no thave a db_1.
Let me know if you need any clarification. I don't understand what I did wrong in this process.
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 $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
All files under ORACLE_HOME should be owned by user:oracle group:dba.
I had the same issue. In my home folder I've got a script named sqlplus.sh that takes care of this for me, containing:
ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=XE
export ORACLE_SID
NLS_LANG=`$ORACLE_HOME/bin/nls_lang.sh`
export NLS_LANG
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
sqlplus /nolog
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!
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 :)
ORACLE_HOME needs to be at the top level of the Oracle directory structure for the database installation. From that point, Oracle knows how to find all the other files it needs. For example, the error message you get is because Oracle can't locate the message files to report errors with (should be in the various mesg directories below the oracle home. Instead of the above value you give, I would try
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0
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.
This is the right way to clear this error.
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
sqlplus / as sysdba
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
set <ORACLE_HOME> path variable
example
path ORACLE_HOME
value is C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server
I'm trying to use cygwin sqlplus to connect to a remote oracle installation located at myserver.mycompany.com port 1530. When I try
sqlplus username#myserver.mycompany.com:1530/orcl
I get the error:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
When I set ORACLE_HOME to /cygdrive/c/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1, I get a different error:
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
I can telnet to the server's port 1530, and the SQL Developer installed locally is also able to connect to the database. What am I doing wrong?
I wasn't aware there was a native cygwin client for Oracle (correct me if I'm wrong here but I can't find any mention of it on Oracle's web site either). If you're using Cygwin with the Windows client you need to use a native windows path. It won't understand your /cygdrive path.
However, I have used Win32 Oracle clients with cygwin and made it work - the same shell scripts would work on Cygwin, Linux and Solaris.
There isn't a cygwin Oracle client. As above answer, use the ORACLE_HOME set to the windows path.
For the first half of your question, try seeing what the TNS_NAMES env variable is set to, and if not set, you may need to try setting it to the correct place. Usually it defaults to %ORACLE_HOME%/network/admin/tnsnames.ora . SQL Developer keeps it's own copy of the tnsnames file, so you can't reply upon that to fix the problem.
Combining the details from the other answers (which took me a little, so I post it as separate answer instead of comments):
The $ORACLE_SID and, if set, $TNS_ADMIN (and probably other path-related Oracle variables) must use Windows-paths. Your Cygwin $PATH variable should of course use the Cygwin notation (/drives/c/…). So I've included into my .bashrc:
export ORACLE_HOME=c:\\Oracle\\product\\12.1.0\\dbhome_1
export TNS_ADMIN=d:\\Oracle\TNSAdmin
export PATH=$PATH:$(cygpath -u $ORACLE_HOME)/BIN
After that, I had no more issues calling e.g. tnsping or sqlplus. As the above is just an example, you must of course adjust the paths to reflect your installation/configuration :)
NXC is right - it wasn't a cygwin client I was using, but the windows sqlplus client.
I set the windows environment variables for ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID and was then able to run sqlplus in a cygwin bash shell using the net_service_name from tnsnames.ora.
The way it worked for me was to remove /cygdrive/d or /cygdrive/c and replace them with with d:/ or c:/ and then your sqlplus call within cygwin session will work. The /cygdrive/DriveLetter is confusing it.
I have same error like you,
you should set not only ORACLE_HOME in windows Variables,
But also PATH include %ORACLE_HOME%\bin
then you can open windows cmd,
try sqlplus username/password#your_define_tnsname
if okay, then remove all ORACLE PATH setting in cygwin, restart cygwin,try it.
if failure, should let sqlplus works well in windows cmd at first
I have TNS_ADMIN variable configured and it works properly in Win Environ
I used cygpath mnodification in .bashrc
If TNS_ADMIN is configured add following row to .bashrc
export TNS_ADMIN=$(cygpath -m $TNS_ADMIN)