At 01:59 PM 23/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:

>I have several strange error messages in my firebird.log and I don't
>know, what they mean.
>
>IMPULSE (Server) Mon Aug 16 12:52:05 2004
> Database: G:\DB\IMPULSE.GDB
> internal gds software consistency check (Too many savepoints (287))
>
>IMPULSE (Server) Sat Aug 21 21:29:25 2004
> Database: G:\DB\IMPULSE GC.GDB
> Index 1 has orphan child page at page 80703 in table REPL_SEPARATOR
>(238)
>
>IMPULSE (Server) Sat Aug 21 21:29:25 2004
> Database: G:\DB\IMPULSE GC.GDB
> Relation has 11 orphan backversions (99 in use) in table REPL_SEPARATOR
>
>(238)
>
>IMPULSE (Server) Sat Aug 21 21:32:58 2004
> Database: G:\DB\IMPULSE GC.GDB
> internal gds software consistency check (limbo impossible (184))
>
>Can anyone help me?

You have corruption there, the kind that, unfortunately, seems to happen
when you have a damaged or dying disk. If it's an InterBase database,
there can be other causes...

Follow this exactly:

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_db_corr

Also Google for the IBSurgeon diagnostic tool (free) - it can be a great
help in finding those corrupted pages.

/heLen