At 02:14 AM 26/01/2008, Matthias Hanft wrote:

>Since the latest FB Gentoo package update (where all the files were moved
>from /opt to /usr), the startup script "/etc/init.d/firebird start"
>always takes a while, then displays "the firebird service could not
>be started" - but that's a lie: everything runs fine!

It's not a lie :-) If fbserver is already running, then it can't be started.

./heLen