--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Michael Weissenbacher
<mw@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> > And third: at the moment I can't get Firebird 2.0 SuperServer to
> > start at all on Ubuntu 7.10. In this case it says "Ok", but doesn't
> > run and the log file only contains "INET/inet_error: connect errno =
> > 111" - no starting message afterwards.
> True, the Firebird package for Ubuntu is broken too. It expects that
> /var/run/firebird/2.0/ exists and is writable by user firebird. But

/var/run

> is a tmpfs under Ubuntu and so /var/run/firebird/ is lost after a

reboot. You

> could fix that Ubuntu-specific problem by adding the following to
> /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:
> --- snip ---
> #create /var/run/firebird/2.0
> mkdir /var/run/firebird
> mkdir /var/run/firebird/2.0
> chown firebird:firebird /var/run/firebird/2.0
> --- snip ---
>

Did that, rebooted, tried to start Firebird and got the message
110: 1: parameter not set
What does that mean?

> Firebird seems to not easily fit into the FHS scheme, i think that's

why you'll

> have fewer problems if you use the official versions that install

into /opt.

>

But what about packages like Qt that I want to be configured with
Firebird support? As is, I put the "firebird" use flag into make.conf
and get everything with Firebird support that can use it. I suspect
that wouldn't work any more without the Gentoo ebuild for Firebird. Or
would it?

Thank you,
Herta