--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
wrote:

> They aren't Firebird error codes but they do have some internal
> meaning to Windows. 4294967295 is the maximum number for an

unsigned

> integer in C. I seem to recall someone once suggesting that it
> tended to show up as the result of runaway recursions.
>
> Just a thought though - how large is your firebird.log? Is the

log

> sitting on a FAT32 partition?

No, it is NTFS.

> Control services error 1061 occurs when the service is sent a

message

> and is not in a state to receive messages.

Thanks for magic uncovered, so this is normal if service is down.

I am curious, Helen, where do you know all these numbers from? :)

> Hmm, a human could be doing this. Have you someone there with
> Administrator privileges, who is running experimental queries at
> lunch-time, and tries to cure his problems by shutting down the

server?

Well, I hope - this is not human! Actually, this is a remote site,
I have no idea what is going on there, I have to check this.

Thanks,
Glebas

>
> Or is someone, or a batch job, running a filesystem backup while
> users have gone to lunch, leaving themselves logged in?
>
> ./heLen
>