On Wednesday 2002-01-30 at 18:55:28 -0800, David Montgomery wrote:

> I'm running v4.2 on Win2000, in the process of migrating to Firebird RC2.
>
> One of my files when I try to gbak it, gives me the following error:
>
> gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (can't continue after
> bugcheck)
> gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
> gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
> gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (can't continue after
> bugcheck)
>
> When I run a gfix -validate against the same database file, I get a checksum
> error.
>
> So, I thought, I would run a gfix -mend -ignore. Unfortunately, when I try
> to do this, the ibserver process crashes every time.

Have you tried "gbak -verify -ignore" ?

David Trudgett