----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] unavailable database


> At 04:31 PM 17/02/2009, you wrote:
>>Any idea if the new installed software plunders the FB used TCPIP port(s)
>>?
>
> Is this a new question? or a theory about why fbEmbedded stopped working?
>
> If the latter, the TCP/IP port is irrelevant for embedded.
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "eddressel" <eddressel@...>
>>To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
>>Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:18 PM
>>Subject: [firebird-support] unavailable database
>>
>>
>>> D2007, FB 1.5 embedded, IBO 4.8.6
>>>
>>> (I posted this in the IBO ng but have not heard anything and this is a
>>> good client of mine so I did not want to wait).
>>>
>>> I have a customer that cannot connect to a FB database when the
>>> application start-up. The database is there, the gds32.dll is there--I
>>> just can't get it to connect to the database.
>>>
>>> The IBO Monitor gives me this message (from FB, I believe):
>>>
>>> //*******************
>>> FB Log Msg from TIB_Monitor = '/*---
>>> INTERPRET BUFFER = unavailable database
>>> ERRCODE = -1
>>> ----*/'
>>> //*******************
>>>
>>> just before raising the exception.
>>>
>>> In talking with the user (I logged into his machine) he uninstalled
>>> his video conferencing software just before he saw the problem--but I
>>> need to know how to fix this, not just the cause of the problem.
>
> My guess would be the uninstallation of the video conferencing software
> might have removed the MSVC runtimes (msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll for Fb
> 1.5, AFAIR) from system dir if it was responsible for putting them there.
>
> Another possibility is that your fbclient.dll (presumably a renamed
> fbembed.dll) has actually been playing as a client-only client all along,
> attaching to a Fb server that was installed by the video conf software.
> Maybe a reboot will do the trick and the app will load the embedded
> server.
>
> ./hb
>
>
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