At 09:25 PM 16/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "trac_t2000" <trac_t@s...>
>wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > Firebird Version 1.0x SuperServer.
> > Client PC Windows XP.
> > And this is using it on a local machine, not a network install.
> >
> > One of our clients is getting the following message in the log file:
> >
> > KKUHF-2 (Client) Tue Mar 15 15:04:27 2005
> > C:\Program Files\Firebird\Bin\ibserver.exe : The guardian was
>unable
> > to launch the server thread. errno : 6
> >
> >
> > I have found of links for info about error numbers, but nothing for
> > errno 6. Can anyone give me any info on this?

Not a categorical answer. It's not a Firebird error, but a Windows device
error, which Guardian is reporting verbatim because it doesn't know why it
can't start ibserver.exe. Start by checking whether ibserver.exe is
actually there, in the location where Guardian has told Windows to look.
(C:\Program Files\Firebird\Bin\ibserver.exe).

>I have some new information. I tried on our testing pc to backup
>then restore the database in question. Backup runs fine. When I try
>to restore the new backup, it errors with the following:
>
>gbak: ERROR: connection lost to database
>gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
>gbak: ERROR: connection lost to database

This means that the host machine can't find (or can't access) a running
server. Either the server wasn't started, or it crashed at some point.

I'm curious about what you mean by this:

> And this is using it on a local machine, not a network install.

"Using it" = using what? Do you mean that the client is trying to connect
locally? What connection path are you using? Is that machine running
Terminal Server?

Did you use the official installer to install Firebird, or did you just
copy files?

Is the server set up to run as a service or as an application? If as a
service, are you giving XP enough time to start the service before you try
to access Firebird?

./hb