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

> 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 ---

That is really weird problem. Which distro did you install? I have run
FB1.5, FB2.0.3 without any problems in Ubuntu 7.04 and now Ubuntu
7.10. It is working perfectly fine.

I have installed
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/FirebirdSS-debuginfo-2.0.3.12981-1.nptl.i686.tar.gz

this distro and by default it goes to /opt/firebird

Just extract the file, cd to the directory and run :
sudo sh install.sh

It should ask you, in the end, to change the sysdba password, and you are set.

Then you can run gsec to add users.

Hope that helps.

All the best,

Fidel.