skoczian [2008-01-27 13:28] :

> But it wasn't running before the startup script was called. I just
> looked again:
>
> sib@Elend ~ $ ps aux | grep fb
> sib 5151 0.0 0.1 2976 780 pts/1 S+ 11:27 0:00
> grep --colour=auto fb
>
> No fbserver running. Then
>
> Elend ~ # /etc/init.d/firebird start
> * Starting Firebird server ...
> check /var/log/firebird/firebird.log file for errors
> can not start server
> [ ok ]
>
> And the log file says:
>
> Elend (Client) Sun Jan 27 11:28:05 2008
> INET/inet_error: connect errno = 111
>
> Elend (Client) Sun Jan 27 11:28:06 2008
> /usr/lib/firebird/../../../usr/bin/fbguard: guardian
> starting ../../../usr/bin/fbserver
>

it is a common problem under Linux
can you check that you have a gds_hosts.equiv file like this where "fbs" is unqualified
name of your host , it might help but I also have some box where this problem is present,
because of name resolver not working fine? (the most often problem is timeout in DNS) :

localhost
localhost.localdomain
fbs