Hello Giles,

p> The first problem is that when you tell the terminal to
p> shutdown/restart, it seems the Firebird server tries to stop before
p> Windows manages to close active applications, so some of our stuff is
p> still running and connected to the database. The net effect of this
p> is that the Firebird server pops up and says 'There are still active
p> connections, are you sure you want to quit?' (not exact wording, but
p> you get the gist), which hangs the shutdown process altogether. By
p> this time the touchscreen drivers have been unloaded too, so you have
p> to open it up and either hard reset it or plug a keyboard in to get
p> any further.
As far as I can remember, the message above is shown with FB that is
running as an application, not as a service. Are you sure your FB
server starts as a service?

p> The thing I find very odd about this one is that since firebird is
p> running as a service, it should be running even before anyone logs in,
p> yet our stuff won't launch until after login, and is still hitting
p> this issue occasionally.
I'd check the startup mode again to be sure about the service.


HTH
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Best regards,
Pavel Menshchikov
http://www.ls-software.com