At 04:47 PM 30/12/2004 +0000, Nick Upson wrote:

>Can anyone tell me how what's gone wrong and how to correct it
>
>upgrading fb 1.5.0
>
>Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
>Kernel 2.4.20-37.9.legacy on an i686
>
>I ran this:
> rpm -Uvh FirebirdSS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.rpm
>the first time it complained that firebird was already running (true)
>the 2nd time it ran ok, so the first one must have closed it down.
>
>Since then connections that worked before return a message about the machine
>actively rejecting the connection, reboot has no effect

At the time 1.5 came out, the rpm kits didn't support rpm -U. I haven't
heard that anything changed since then. AFAIK, to "upgrade" you'll need to
do either a full rpm -e uninstall and then install fresh with the -i
flag; or use the tar kit. On distros that support rpm, I favour the
former. The privs that you have set up for 1.5.0 should remain intact...

./heLen