At 01:56 AM 14/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Thanks Helen for the attention. Anyway, after your suggestion I do a
>quick check on existance of fb before starting it. It's still giving
>me same error. Below is my screen / log shots. Is my fb tries to
>_over_ spawn or something? What can I do to fix this? TQ.

I wonder if, when running the /etc/init.d/firebird script, you were making
your problem. That script sets a group of environment variables, including
the ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD variables. In my (multiple) copies of this
script, ISC_PASSWORD is set to the original generated SYSDBA password. I
see that you are using 'masterke' as your sysdba password.

You could try unsetting ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD. Then start again, this
time running fbmgr yourself, not the init.d script.

./helen