Hey... WHO ya callin OLD ?? ;-)

> ......for old Firebird installations that are still hanging around.

maybe i should be upgrading to at least version 2, eh ??

Thanks Helen for (once again) your fantastic help in our world here...

Leme jump and try this right now.....Ok.. restarted (services runnin, so
number TWO below is out). Next I tried to attach remote (via DBW) -
works fine as before. OK now for runnin it local...... drumroll.... well
shucks.. .sorry... your number 1 outcome seems to be true:

> gbak: ERROR: unavailable database
> gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors

Helen's three:
1) get the same result
2) Firebird might refuse to start at all
3) it will work

thx for the test !
Rich


Helen Borrie wrote:

>
> At 04:05 AM 10/01/2010, Rich Pinder wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >(Windows & FB 1.5 & Server 2003)
> >
> >I noticed that my automated backups, running nightly via the windows
> 'scheduled task' approach have ceased working. They have worked since
> 2007, and I'm puzzled why they have stopped. I suspect the 'windows
> updates' might be the culprit, but not sure.
>
> Although use of the old IPCServer (FirebirdIPI) that comes with Fb 1.5
> is a known problem on Vista, Server2008 and Windows 7 (in short, you
> can't use it at all) this is the first time (I think) that we have
> seen this set of symptoms reported for Server2003. So - if nothing
> else changed in your environment - it's at least feasible that a
> security update to this OS could now be blocking it, too.
>
> >Only happens running LOCALLY. If I run the gbak from DBWorkbench, it
> fires off GBAK fine. Everything else on the system is working (all
> client apps, remote work...)
>
> [..]
>
> >I just realized this is not JUST a GBAK problem... ISQL and gstat
> also report same (here's from gstat)
>
> One thing you could try is the following:
>
> Open firebird.conf in Notepad and go to the parameter IPCName. If this
> is configured to use the default, it will be:
>
> #IpcName = FirebirdIPI
>
> Remove the '#' comment marker and change this parameter to
>
> IpcName = Global\FirebirdIPI
>
> Note, it is case-sensitive!!
>
> Save the change and stop the Guardian and Firebird services. Restart
> Guardian (or the Firebird service, if you're not using Guardian).
>
> You're going to get the same result OR Firebird might refuse to start
> at all OR it will work (in that order of likelihood).
>
> Don't treat this as the ultimate answer - it's a wild guess, based on
> the Vista experiences with the initial release of Fb 2, which
> introduced the new implementation of the IPCServer, using XNET.
> (Subsequent Fb 2.x releases automatically took care of globalizing the
> new IPCServer's scope.) But please try it and report back. If it
> works, then we'll have a solution to add to the armory for old
> Firebird installations that are still hanging around.
>
> ./heLen
>
>