> I use FireBird 2.1.2.18118 and I have a database corrupted.

How did you detected it ? I.e. what errors did you had ?

> I tried to repair it using gfix -mend or gfix -v -f but in both cases I get the following =
> message:
>
> internal gds software consistency check (cannot find tip page (165), file: =
> tra.cpp line 2494)
>
> I found in http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2268 that this is an
> error reported recently but it doesn't say what is the solution.

Its have nothing common with database corruption. Its about wrong usage of
gfix (trying to fix non-existing in-limbo transaction).

Regards,
Vlad