dbstart failed

Hi! My manager installed Oracle server 7.3.3 on Solaris 2.6 machine some time ago. Yesterday I tried to connect to start listener process on it so that I could connect to its database instance remotely but it failed. I looked at the permissions of the files in $ORACLE_HOME and /opt/oradata dirs and they were all 1001 (unknows users or something like that) At that point, oracle was active and all oracle server processes were also owned by 1001

I killed them (I think I did kill -9) . Then changed permissions to oracle user and dba group and tried to restart it: dbstart that's what I got:

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Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.3.0.0 - Production Release PL/SQL Release 2.3.3.0.0 - Production

SVRMGR> Connected to an idle instance.
SVRMGR> LCC-00161: ORACLE error (possible syntax error) parameter [NULL] ORA-01041: internal error. hostdef extension doesn't exist SVRMGR>
Server Manager complete.

Database "ultra" warm started.

ps -ef | grep ora showed nothing afterwards

I am thinking my problem relates to changing the permissions of the files after installation, but when I tried to change it back to 1001 on all the files, it still failed on dbstart. Is there a way to relink internal oracle groups so that they match to oracle UNIX account after the installation (manual obviously says you need to run install as oracle already but it clearly wasn't the case) Any ideas? Thanks Vladimir Kutsman

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