--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "cecil1_5" <acecil@i...> wrote:

>
>
> I am a new and trying-to-be user of Firebird. (and an old
> experienced Sql server DBA/user).
>
> I downloaded the zip file onto a nice clear machine running windows
> server 2003. I printed out the tons of release notes, read all the
> readmes, and ran the install_super (because I didn't realize the
> fancy windows installer was in a separate zip). then I migrated to
> the directory where the security fdb was, ran isql.exe, added my
> user, etc. opened a private db, and so on. Everything worked fine.
>
> Next day, the sys admin brought down the machine, unplugged it, and
> moved it into the official, air-conditioned server room. The
> Firebird service would no longer start. I uninstalled, reran the
> install -- appeared to work fine, but any connect gets error -904
> unavailable database.
>
> I read all the messages on the support line, and tried what the other
> guy did: I have now installed with the fancy installer, and then
> uninstalled, installed from the zip again, uninstalled, deleted and
> removed everything, tried again -- each time the service comes up,
> the registry is fine, etc, but: unavailable database.
>
> Clearly it is not corruption, because I wiped out and redownloaded
> the security fdb. Would something in a network card cause this?

How many processors the machine has ? i got some simptoms on one with
hyper-threading when creating a new db it gives me "unavailable
database." if i try creating it from cmd line (isql)

ps:
Try creating the dbs on another machine and then move it to target one