At 03:08 AM 10/01/2007, you wrote:

>Hi, I meet this problem occasionally while I have no clue why this is
>happening and it bothers me:
>
>Copy a new firebird DB and start the application to connect to the DB
>in embedded embedded mode, sometimes it gives an error of "i/o error".
>If I run the application again, it works fine since then. Seems
>something was rectified after 1st failure.
>
>Not sure if it is caused by the way I created the database. Here are
>the steps:
>1. generate SQL from my development DB.
>2. Run SQL to generate an empty database
>3. Open the empty database in IBExpert in superserver mode, run
>another sql to create some pre-defined records, the close the DB
>connection.
>
>Unfortunately I cannot duplicate the problem. For one same database it
>may have problem on one computer, but works fine on another one...
>
>Does anyone have a clue?

It's probably due to not explicitly committing the script's work in
IBExpert. Check how you have it configured with regard to committing
transactions.

./heLen