Philippe Makowski, Thanks!
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mkdir /var/run/firebird
chown = firebird:firebird
chmod = 700 like haldaemon. should it be 644 like rpcuser?
reboot, and ... holding breath ...
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We are working again!
Brilliant!
Many Thanks!

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Makowski <makowski@...> wrote:
>
> astrofacesresearcher [09-09-02 03.03] :
> > Hello everyone,
> > we're running a research database on Firebird 2.1.3 SuperServer.
> > we upgraded to Fedora 11 two weeks ago and it's been running fine.
> > the application and database are on the same machine for simplicity.
> >
> > Last night, Fedora update sent four Firebird updates.
> > Today the database app, flamerobin and isql all say "cannot connect".
> >
> > Haven't been able to get it working this afternoon.
> > What needs to be reset? what was changed?
> > Please include step by step.
>
> Yes, that's a bug in the update process of the Fedora rpm
> see :
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8340
>