Subject RE: [firebird-support] HELP! Unavailable database whatever I do!
Author Salim Naufal
David,

There are several things you could do to figure out what is going on.
1) Check your Win XP application and system event logs for anything
abnormal.
2) If you cannot connect, there can be only two possibilities, either
Firebird is not working properly as a result of the crash or the database is
corrupt.

To check if Firebird is working, create another database and try to access
it. If that fails, then the try reinstalling Firebird on that PC.
If you succeed in creating the database, you can assume that your Database
is corrupt. Back it up then restore it. In most of the cases, the problem
gets fixed: For that procedure, do the following:
gfix -mend -user sysdba -password <sysdba's pwd> <database>
gback -B -g -v -user sysdba -password <sysdba's pwd> <database> <backup>
gback -R -user sysdba -password <sysdba's pwd> <backup> <newdb>

good luck

Salim


-----Original Message-----
From: dhay@... [mailto:dhay@...]


Running on Win XP with SuperServer.

cheers,

David