If goto into the services console in windows (start, run, services.msc)
Then right click on the firebird service(s) and choose properties, you will
see the full path to the file that the service is trying to run (ie on mine
the properties of the firebird server service give the following:
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe -s )
Then check that the path exists, if you want to change it I can post
instructions on howto do this as well.

Cheers
Steveb

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Jenkins [mailto:reofax@...]
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2005 7:47 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Problem starting Firebird Service

We are installing firebird with our application onto Windows XP machines. We
have some customers that are getting into a wierd state.

When our install program goes to start the firebird service we are geting
this error:

"Error 3: The system could not find the path specified"

Does anybody know what the path would be or any strategies for finding out
which path is in question.

We think that it has something to do with uninstalling firebird and
reinstalling with an old interbase instance still hanging around.

We have tried going through the registry and file system and deleting all
instances of both firebird and interbase, but this did not help.
When we try running our instalation process again it fails with the above
error when we try to start the firebird service.

Thanks in advance

Ray


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