At 11:33 AM 19/09/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I am experiencing Firebird freeze atleast once a day on one of our
>customer's site.
>When the freeze occurs I am not able to login to the database even via
>isql (that rules out network issues). At times I have waited for well
>over a minute trying to connect, finally I restart Firebird.
>
>Firebird: SuperServer 1.5.2.4731 (old threading model)
>Server Hardware: Dell Poweredge with Intel Xeon processor, 1 GB RAM
>Server OS: Ubuntu 5.04 running 2.6.11-1-686 kernel
>Client Apps use Firebird.Net 1.0.1241
>Database size is fairly small as of now, about 40 MB.
>
>This is the first Ububtu installation that we have tried out. Earlier
>we were using RH8.0 and did not have this problem.
>There is nothing logged in Firebird.log. Any ideas on whats going on?

Yup. You need either the NPTL build of superserver, or to set
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 in your environment. Exact instructions for this
are on p.57 of the release notes (in the doc directory).

You'll find the release notes essential reading for this and lots of other
reasons.

./heLen