At 01:53 AM 8/08/2008, you wrote:

>trying to answer both emails:
>
>This is a system with, at the point this occurred, no external connections.
>The file is restored on boot to a temp location and then moved to the right
>place on completion of the restore. This happens as root. Then programs on
>the same system can connect which run as a non-root user.
>
>I didn't have time to take detail when it happened, so I now trying to
>replicate it. Any ideas/suggestions gratefully received
>2008/8/6 Nick Upson <nick.upson@...>
>
>> This is firebird 1.5.4 running on Fedora Core 8
>>
>> I've just seen 2 seperate machines, running identical code & databases,
>> very similiar data, have 2 copies of fb_lock_mgr running.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this before? How or why can this occur (or what should stop
>> it occurring)

In that case I'd be worried that the restored database was being moved while gbak was still connected to it. Are you doing the safety step of renaming the old database before attempting to move the restored one?

./heLen