Please Help me can't start svrmgrl

Question

After I have installed Oracle8i Linux(glibc2.1) :
when i try the command
sqlplus:
Message file sp1.msb not found Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
when i try the command
svrmgrl:
Message 4505 not found; No message file for product=SVRMGR,facility=MGR
Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-03113
Appreciate any help.
I specified in my PATH :$ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/mesg
Thanks for your time

Answer 1

Do the following,
This workaround is for Redhat 7.0 and oracle 8.1.6
Workaround
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(for RedHat 7.0) Install the following packages: U can install the packages using rpm command mount the cdrom redhat 7.0 type the following command
rpm -i compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9.i386.rpm this is the filename in the cdrom for the following first package. For second package you should follow the same step above.
compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
and modify all occurrences of CC and LINK definitions in all env_*.mk
makefiles in the $ORACLE_HOME software tree from either $(LDCCOM) or
gcc to i386-glibc21-linux-gcc.
To better illustrate the needed changes, the lines such as
CC=cc
LINK=$(LDCCOM)
LINK=$(PURECMDS) gcc $(LDFLAGS) $(COMPOBJS)
will become
CC=i386-glibc21-linux-gcc
LINK=i386-glibc21-linux-gcc
LINK=$(PURECMDS) i386-glibc21-linux-gcc $(LDFLAGS) $(COMPOBJS)
Be sure there will be multiple accurances of the above mentioned expressions check twice. That is CC= may accour twice in the file. You have to apply change for both.
You will also need to modify the genclntsh shell script and substitute
LD="ld -shared -L${ORACLE_HOME}/lib"
LD_RUNTIME="-R${ORACLE_HOME}/lib"
LD_OPT="-h ${CLNT_LIB}"
with
LD="i386-glibc21-linux-gcc -shared -L${ORACLE_HOME}/lib"
LD_RUNTIME="-Wl,-R${ORACLE_HOME}/lib"
LD_OPT="-Wl,-h${CLNT_LIB}"
Finally, rebuild libclntsh.so by running 'genclntsh' and relink oracle,
svrmgrl etc. using the usual relink commands. You'll get warnings in
the relink process but they can be ignored. While running the genclntsh you will get unrecognized command something like that.Ignore those errors. If you get exit code 1 then check the modifications you have done and run it again. If it is successfull it wont give exit code 0.
This has been tested on env_rdbms.mk, env_sqlplus.mk, env_network.mk
but should be working on the other makefiles as well.
All the best,it will work out. Thanks for those who made this possible.
Hari