We produce an accounting system and converted our system across to
Firebird 1.54 from Interbase 5.6. We have found that at some sites on
an irregular basis we get the following error in the firebird event log.

SERVERX (Client) Thu Nov 08 17:00:50 2007
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe: terminated
abnormally (4294967295)

In the windows event log the following messages appear:
The description for Event ID ( 281 ) in Source (
FirebirdGuardianDefaultInstance ) cannot be found. The local computer
may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files
to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the
/AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support
for details. The following information is part of the event: Abnormal
Termination: C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe:
terminated abnormally (4294967295).

The servers on which Firebird run are dedicated IBM Windows 2003
Servers, configured with RAID 5, 3.x ghz processor with typically 4
Gig of Memmory installed. The method of connection to the database is
by the BDE which we are getting ready to replace and we have a number
of applications that access the database. This is our application
suite (comprised of many seperate programs such as Debtors, Creditors
etc) not 3rd party utilities or db tools etc.

The firebird debug version of firebird has been installed at one of
the sites (Firebird-1.5.4.4910-0-Win32_pdb.exe) and a Crash Dump file
has been generated for one of the abnormal terminations. This file
can be made available if it is of use.

Does anyone know what may cause this sort of problem. From the
message I infer it comes from our client application but what sort of
operation would induce this error? Although this may not be directly
relevant this did not occur under Interbase 5.6.

Regards


Aldous