ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified

After upgrading CRS from 10.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.3 started seeing the following issue while starting the ASM or DB using the srvctl utilitty.ASM starts fine using sqlplus.


ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified

To resolve the issue we changed the following entries.


1)$GRID_HOME/crs/install/s_crsconfig__env.txt

Changed #NLS_LANG=CRS_LANGUAGE_ID

to following

NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1



2)$GRID_HOME/crs/install/crsconfig_params, we commented

Changed

#LANGUAGE_ID=CRS_LANGUAGE_ID='AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1'

to following

LANGUAGE_ID=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
CRS_LANGUAGE_ID=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1