Joe:

Make sure that hosts.equiv includes localhost if this file doesn't
exist, then create it, and put localhost in it. I haven't used
Solaris 8, but have had similar problems in Linux, and the above
fixes it.

Paul

On 23 Mar 2001, at 16:01, Joe Krause wrote:

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From: Joe Krause <joe@...>
Date sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:01:29 -0800
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Subject: [ib-support] "can not start server" error

> Whenever I try to start Interbase 6.0 on Solaris 8, I get an error
> message stating:
>
> check $INTERBASE/interbase.log file for errors
> can not start server
>
> The odd thing is that when I check which processes are running, both
> ibguard and ibserver are running. Even more strange, is the fact that
> I can successfully connect to the database using IBConsole, isql, or
> JDBC (using interclient). We have developed a complete java enterprise
> application using interbase as our RDBMS, even though when I start the
> server, it tells me that it did not start.
>
> When I check the interbase.log file, it says:
>
> dana (Client) Thu Mar 22 17:00:15 2001
> /usr/local/interbase/bin/ibguard: bin/ibserver normal
> shutdown.
>
> dana (Client) Thu Mar 22 17:00:38 2001
> INET/inet_error: connect errno = 146
>
> dana (Client) Thu Mar 22 17:00:38 2001
> /usr/local/interbase/bin/ibguard: guardian starting
> bin/ibserver
>
> dana (Server) Thu Mar 22 17:00:38 2001
> Open file limit increased from 256 to 1024
>
> dana (Server) Thu Mar 22 17:00:40 2001
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for root
>
> These error messages in the log file mean nothing to me. I couldn't
> even find references to them in any of the Interbase documentation.
> has anyone seen this problem before? or know how to fix it? Am i
> gtting these errors because I'm trying to run this product on Solaris
> 8???
>
> Help!
> Joe Krause
>
>
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Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
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