| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Error reading data from the connection when adding user |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2010-10-01T21:28:46Z |
At 08:27 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
"Upgrade" would mean moving to a higher VERSION of the engine and a higher On-Disk Structure (ODS), viz., in your case, from v.2.1.x to the soon-to-be-released v.2.5.
An upgrade necessarily means work, perhaps a lot. An update simply means replacement. That said, if you have done an incomplete upgrade already, say, from v.2.0.x or 1.5.x to 2.1.x, then you still have that work left to do.
./heLen
>Hello All18 mths old...too old. That's 18 mths of bug fixes and security vulnerability patches that you don't have. Even v.2.1.3 is more than a year old now and v.2.1.4 snapshots have been available for several months already.
>
>Today I have experienced strange thing: when I try to add a user to the
>firebird server I get "Error reading data from the connection", but user
>was created.
>This is old FB instalation: LI-V6.3.2.18118 Firebird 2.1
>I have backuped and restored security database, but it didn't help.This is not telling us enough. For example, some people do an upgrade and think it is OK just to file-copy their old security database.
>Any clues?No, nothing useful provided by you. How about providing the output of gstat -h from the security database? And telling us the method you are trying to use to add/modify users? Both of these.
>Time to upgrade?It would be a good idea to understand the difference between "upgrade" and "update". I think you should *UPDATE* your sub-release of v.2.1 because yours is so old that it is likely you are bumping into a bug that is already fixed.
"Upgrade" would mean moving to a higher VERSION of the engine and a higher On-Disk Structure (ODS), viz., in your case, from v.2.1.x to the soon-to-be-released v.2.5.
An upgrade necessarily means work, perhaps a lot. An update simply means replacement. That said, if you have done an incomplete upgrade already, say, from v.2.0.x or 1.5.x to 2.1.x, then you still have that work left to do.
./heLen