Newbie sqlplus login only works with sqlplus username/password@xe, why?

I am using the Express edition 10g on an ubuntu linux 686 box . I have the oracle xe service running and have my bash environment setup correctly . However When I say
just "sqlplus" to connect to my databases
The sqlplus application prompts me for username first and then for the password. However it never recognized either and gives the following errors
ORA-01034 : Oracle not available
ORA-27123 : unable to attach to shared memory segment
Linux Error: 13: Permission denied.
If I instead in the same shell I run
sqlplus username/password@xe
Then it logs me in fine without any errors.
I wanted to understand why the first way where I enter my username and password at the prompts does not work and give me the ORA-01034 and ORA-27123 errors since a lot of the installation seemed a bit of a blackbox for me.
Thanks for your help in advance
Hari

Hi Avi,
I have setup my environment as mentioned in the installation docs
So despite that I am getting the errors.
The only way to not get the error is to say sqlplus username/password@xe
Here is what the ORACLE_HOME and Oracle_SID are set to:
myname@hjubuntu:~$ echo $ORACLE_HOME
/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
myname@hjubuntu:~$ echo $ORACLE_SID
XE
myname@hjubuntu:~$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Dec 4 00:41:00 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter user-name: myname
Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment
Linux Error: 13: Permission denied
Thanks
HJ
Edited by: 817787 on Dec 3, 2010 9:44 PM

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