I have had my box stall on boot up with Firebird, but the reason wasn't what
I expected. When I had the box set to run on my LAN (it's a 1U rack mounted
box that will be moved to a colo facility), all was well. Yes, it shows
'Firebird starting...' on startup of Linux, then about 3 seconds later
finishes and continues. All is well.

Before I was going to move the box to my colo facility, I had to change the
network IP address, etc. for this. Then as a precaution, I restarted the
box. When it got to the 'Firebird starting...' it hung up. Sat there for
ages. After about 10 minutes I rebooted the box again. Same thing
happened. It then dawned on me that the problem is the IP addressing. I
changed the IP addressing back to the LAN, and now it started just fine.

So if you have a network IP addressing problem with your box, Firebird
probably won't start. Why this is the case, I have no idea. But it won't.
It will just sit there. The fact that eventually it does complete the
bootup is probably that it can find some network eventually and then works.
Maybe you have a router problem or something like that?

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Phone (480) 451-7440
Web: www.techsol.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McDonald [mailto:alan@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:13 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Guide to Firebird installation on Linux
>
> > I went through this exercise recently. Its all in the Release
> > Notes for 1.5
> > Firebird. I have FB Super Server 1.5 running sweet on RedHat Linux 9.
> > After I read the docs, it was a piece of cake. Go figure.
> >
> > Myles
> when your RH9 box boots up - do you have Firebird starting on boot? if
> so
> do you have the NTPL builds? If not, how long does your box stall on
> "Starting Firebird..." at boot time. Mine takes 7 minutes. I'm about to
> try
> the NTPL builds.
> Alan
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