Hello,

I'm new in this Group.
I've some problems to start the Firebird 1.0.0 databaseserver.
If I starting it some error ocours in the interbase.log:

IBSERVER (Client) Thu Sep 18 12:07:48 2003
INET/inet_error: connect errno = 146
IBSERVER (Client) Thu Sep 18 12:07:48 2003
/usr/interbase/bin/ibguard: guardian starting bin/ibserver
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:48 2003
Open file limit increased from 64 to 1024
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:50 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:50 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:50 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:51 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:51 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:51 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:52 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:53 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:53 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:54 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:54 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:54 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:55 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:55 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:55 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:56 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:56 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:56 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:57 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:57 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:57 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:58 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:58 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:58 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:59 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:59 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:07:59 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:08:00 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:08:00 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase
IBSERVER (Server) Thu Sep 18 12:08:00 2003
SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for interbase

I've searching in FAQ's, Knowledgebase and so on. Only I found this:

KnowledgeBase Id: 243
Question:
I am getting Error 146 in my InterBase.log file.
Answer:
You can find the detailed message to this numeric error code in a
file called
errno.h. This file can be found on most Unix systems under the
directory /usr/include/.
For Solaris,
it is in /usr/include/sys directory.
1. In the Solaris errno.h file, error 146 points to connection
refused. This
usually means that no one is listening on the server side.
To see if gds_db process is listening, do the command:
netstat -a | grep gds_db
at the UNIX prompt. This command asks the system to show us the state
of all
sockets. This includes server processes. This will show if gds_db was
there.
We need to be sure that gds_db was in listen mode.
2. hosts.equiv file has to have localhost in it for InterBase V5.0.
3. Error number 146 is defined as connection reset in the InterBase
source
code. This is equivalent to the TCP/IP error of 10054, in that the
machine on
the other end is abnormally terminating the connection.
Abnormally terminating the connection could be such an occurrance as:
the user
turning off the system or rebooting while being connected.
4. Check to be sure that the inetd.conf file is present and has the
proper
information in it. It should have an entry for gds_db in it for
InterBase 4.0.
5. Check and ensure that /etc/services has the entry of:
gds_db 3050
Firebird/InterBase Version: 5.x

@1 netstat shows me that gds_db is in listen mode ->
*.gds_db *.* 0 0 0 0 LISTEN
@2 hosts.equiv enntie ist -> 127.0.0.1 localhost
@3 I don't know?????
@4 There is no entry in inetd.conf for gds_db -> for superserver I
mean that no entry is OK?
@5 /etc/services has this entry -> gds_db
3050/tcp # Interbase

The user interbase is in the interbase and root group

Where ist the error, what is wrong?

Please help me, and sorry for my bad English, I'm form Germany.

Best Regards
Walter Roeder, Germany