At 10:03 AM 20/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi
>Are there any known issues to keep in mind when installing FB on
>RedHat 9 ?
>
>We've installed FB 1.5.1 rpm on RH9, and it is running really
>unstable: All to often we get a General network error : Unable to
>complete network request to host... At first I thought it had to do
>with my software, but after trying to exclude that, I ended up with
>running a script via IBExpert which causes the same error to occur.
>The script starts executing, and crashes the server at the moment the
>first trigger is to be compiled.
>If it would help, i'm willing to send the script which crashes my FB
>server.
>Running exactly the same script on my FB 1.5.1 server on my WinXP
>machine, there's no problem at all.
>The script creates a DB, defines some udf's from libtbudf.so, creates
>some tables, generators and indexes, and should then also create some
>triggers, and SP. I have the feeling it has sth. to do with the udf,
>but I already recompiled it on a Kylix dev machine (which is running
>on Gento).
>
>I'm really puzzled as to what is causing this behaviour. Problem is
>that I'm still a complete Linux newbie, and it's our customer's
>server, so they installed it, all I did was advice them to go for a
>Firebird DB...
>
>Any help/info muchh appreciated.

Did you read the v.1.5 release notes on the topic of NPTL in Red Hat 9?
Have you tried the NPTL version?

./hb