Oracle 10g XE recovery failed

Question

Hi, everyone:
I have re-install my linux which is rh5. I also have a backup directory - "flash_recovery_area" from another oracle 10g XE database.
When I installed the new oracle 10 XE, I try to restore the backup data from application menu, but the get result as below:
This operation will shut down and restore the database. Are you sure [Y/N]?y
Restore in progress...
Enter the flash recovery area location:/usr/lib/oracle
==================== ERROR =========================
Restore of the database failed
==================== ERROR =========================
RMAN error: See log for details.
Log file is at /home/tim/oxe_restore.log.
Press ENTER key to exit
I found the error lines in oxe_restore.log as below:
RMAN>
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area 285212672 bytes
Fixed Size 1258464 bytes
Variable Size 92277792 bytes
Database Buffers 188743680 bytes
Redo Buffers 2932736 bytes
RMAN>
Recovery Manager complete.
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jul 29 01:05:53 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: XE (not mounted)
RMAN>
echo set on
RMAN> restore spfile from autobackup db_recovery_file_dest='/usr/lib/oracle';
Starting restore at 29-JUL-08
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=36 devtype=DISK
recovery area destination: /usr/lib/oracle
database name (or database unique name) used for search: XE
channel ORA_DISK_1: no autobackups found in the recovery area
autobackup search outside recovery area not attempted because DBID was not set
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 07/29/2008 01:05:54
RMAN-06172: no autobackup found or specified handle is not a valid copy or piece
RMAN> startup force nomount;
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area 608174080 bytes
Fixed Size 1260316 bytes
Variable Size 226493668 bytes
Database Buffers 377487360 bytes
Redo Buffers 2932736 bytes
RMAN> restore controlfile from autobackup;
Starting restore at 29-JUL-08
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
And after that, the new oracle 10 XE can`t start anymore.
Thanks for any help!
OldTim

Answer 1

Thank you so much for reply!
Tried full path already, but still can`t work. But I found another solution below and made it working finally:
Oracle XE Recovery
1 Copy /usr/lib/oracle to Bakcup disk.
sudo cp /usr/lib/oracle /media/disk
2 Copy the directory oracle to new linux system
sudo cp /media/disk /usr/lib/oracle
3 install Oracle 10g XE
4 run command below:
/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/config/scripts/restore.sh
Done.