--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "jimi_compot" <mapopa@r...>
wrote:

> > 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

thanks for the suggestion -- but actually the database was created on
another system and sent to me. Plus the security db comes with the
download, and is not 'created'.

Ann Cecil