Just in case no-one answered, if you've just un-installed Firebird from a
*BSD box, and wish to re-build it from source, the build process likes to
set up it's own semaphores.

Simple solution:
pkg_delete or make deinstall the old package
REBOOT(removes semaphores very thouroughly)
cd /usr/ports/databases/firebird
makeinstall

Harder solution:
pkg_delete/make deinstall
ipcs -a (to show any semaphores)
ipcrm -s 63355 (or what ever semaphore is attached to the GDS entry
Then, you should be able to build cleanly.

N.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Soques [mailto:jsoques@...]
> Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:29
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Firebird on FreeBSD 5.1 Release (again...)
>
>
> I had thought that my installation for Firebird on FreeBSD 5.1 was ok
> but I couldn't connect to the box with IBOConsole from a Win2000
> client, so I did a make deinstall make clean from the ports
> collection. When I tried to do a make again I got the following
> errors: (copied from the last lines)
>
> source/interbase/bin/gbak -c misc/metadata.gbak
> source/refDatabases/jrd/metadata.gdb
> can't format message 12:256 -- message system code -4operating system
> directive semget failed
> can't format message 12:256 -- message system code -4 No such file
> or directory
> can't format message 12:256 -- message system code -4can't format
> message 12:33 -- message system code -4
> can't format message 12:169 -- message system code -4can't format
> message 12:83 -- message system code -4
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/databases/firebird/work/firebird-1.0.2.908.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Anybody got ideas of what can be wrong? I'm just learning to use
> FreeBSD (or *nix for that matter).
>
> Thanks
> Javier Soques
>
>
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