> > >
> > > In the process of garbage collecting, it's looking at an
> old record
> > > version that uses an out-of-date format that was
> corrupted in some
> > > way.
> > >
> >
> >Is that the reason while the engine hangs?
>
> No, sorry, I confused your message with a different gbak
> problem. The engine hanging is very odd. From what you say,
> it's probably in a hard loop and that's something I'd like to
> understand better. I'll be glad to help you debug the
> problem. What might make sense is to get the server running
> under a debugger and let it get into that state. The code
> around there should be very interesting as will tracebacks.
>

OK, will do my best. But i think it's time to move to firebird-devel?

Regards,
Henner