At 12:57 PM 22/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
> > You might save yourself some grief by raising this
> > possibility with the people who installed Firebird on the server -
> > find out
> > whether they took on board the tips about permissions in the
> > installation
> > notes in the 1.5 release notes.
>
>May I go a little off topic here pls ?
>
>I've got that server (Redhat 9) here with me now, so I could check
>myself what Helen asked.
>glibc-2.3.2-27.9 and libstdc++.3.2.2-5 seem to be installed on it
>(checking with "rpm -qav | grep glib" and "rpm -qav | grep libstd")
>
>So the second doesn't seem to be fully compliant with
>Firebird_v15.108_ReleaseNotes.pdf,

That's always likely. The release notes were written at a point in time
where RH 9 was only just becoming available (and even Fedora Core 1 was
just a beta). It's a lottery with the Linux distros - you don't know what
you've got until you install it. People tend to settle on a favourite and
then do all the upgrades.

Basically, if the server runs, then those libs are OK.

>or
>
>glibc seems to be ok, but I'm not sure about libstdc++
>I've done some searching on the required libstdc++-5.0
>but I can't seem to find it. Any hints on where I could find the
>latter, or maybe a link to NG to ask questions of this kind ?

There is linuxquestions.org, if you want to ask about known bugs in RH
9. It was the first of the "mainstream" distros to have NPTL. It could be
that it has a threading bug causing some problem when a process thread
detaches...I don't think the RH 9 free binaries have any sort of
maintenance (it was the last-ever free Red Hat); but if you have a paid
version, Red Hat's support people should be able to point you to an update
pack. (FWIW, I recall Paul Beach having a lot of problems with Red Hat 9
at a customer site..)

It might be like looking for a needle in a haystack. You could "take the
low road": make the settings described in the 1.5 release notes and revert
the system to the older threading model. AFAIK, the NPTL build of Firebird
will work with the old threading; otherwise, just uninstall it and
re-install the regular build.
Also, Firebird 1.5.2 is about to be released, perhaps you could try that.

./hb