> This morning I kept getting this message (from eventlog):
>
> The description for Event ID ( 281 ) in Source ( InterBase
> Guardian )
> cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary
> registry
> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
> computer. The following information is part of the event: Abnormal
> Termination: C:\Program Files\Borland\InterBase\bin\ibserver.exe:
> terminated abnormally (-1).

Intebase Guardian is just not very tidy displaying it's
errors. I would suspect that something in your application
has caused the server to crash.

> The only thing I could do was to BACKUP and afterwards restore the
> DB
> file (through IBConsole).
> After restore my DB has a size of 65 Mb.
>
> Now why did this happen ?

Until you do a restore, the CB size will never go down.
Restore has freed up disk space that has been used at some
time, but is now 'empty'. The server will normally maintain
this extra space and use it again.

> I can add, that a few days ago I experienced a user connected to
> this DB,
> eventhough NO client machine was running !
>
> Are those two things above related ?

Unlikely - unless they made changes that are now causing
application problems.

> I hope that someone can help me, since I'm getting a lot of calls
> from very angry customers.

My customers understand that they have to help when this
sort of problem appears. Just shouting means that it takes
longer to identify what is causing a problem ( and I chage
them more <g> )

> I tried copying my DB file to a machine running Firebird Version 1
> and
> another running IB 6.
> All gave same result.

??? Are you saying that the database is now corrupt and
can't be use

Need some actual details before we can go further!

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services