Thanks, that worked.

Bye
Javier Soques

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nigel Weeks" <nigel@e...>
wrote:

> 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@y...]
> > 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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