I am not the DB-admin (at all) so everything is new to me. But I'll try to
fiure out that...

OK... Found something... Hope this helps aven a little. Now we actually know
how to run GFix, it was about we did not know that it must be taken offline
first (with GFix)...

internal gds software consistency check (decompression overran buffer (179))

DBSERVER (Client) Wed Nov 28 22:35:53 2007
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe: terminated
abnormally (4294967295)

and Backup

gbak: 900000 records written
gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (decompression overran
buffer (179))
gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (can't continue after
bugcheck)


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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: 11. joulukuuta 2007 11:05
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Can't run GFix



At 07:56 PM 11/12/2007, you wrote:

>It is corrupted because Backup fails and can't take metadata with
>IBOConsole. always when we have had corruptions there are this kind of
>errors (with Firebird). It seems to work, but backup fails or some queries
>fails very mysteriously with some situations.

That still tells us nothing. Don't you log backups or check the
firebird.log?

>
>99% working but not working. This happens also that can't take metadata out
>of DB.

What errors are reported?

>Db (in our customers) never has corruped in a way that everything
>stops working (or I can't remember that FB-db on our system ever refuced to
>work at all. It always works almost perfectly).

The point is that, if your database is in some condition that is allowing
some kind of corruption to occur, it will keep allowing that kind of
corruption to occur until the problem is found and fixed.

./heLen






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