We use the server with user "firebird"
We changed the owner of the lock file to "firebird:firebird" and now everything works fine

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ismael L. Donis García" <ismael@...> wrote:
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> Inclusive restarting the server? start as root.
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> || ISMAEL ||
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: martin.wollner
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:06 AM
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 2.0 - cannot attach to password database
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> Thanks for you help, we got the problem:
> At debian firebird should run with uid "firebird". the problem now was, that the firebird started with uid "root".
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> We got a lock file with owner root, so we earned permission denied for the locking file as we tried to write on this file as user firebird
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> Best regards
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> Martin
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> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ismael L. Donis García" <ismael@> wrote:
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> > Yes
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> > Without uninstalling the other ones install the bookstore Libstdc++5
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> > Regards
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> > || ISMAEL ||
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: martin.wollner
> > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:25 AM
> > Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 2.0 - cannot attach to password database
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> > I found
> > libstdc++6 and
> > libstdc++6-4.3-dev
> > on my system - no libstc++5
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> > Can this cause a problem?
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> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ismael L. Donis García" <ismael@> wrote:
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> > > Do you have once the bookstore was installed libstdc++5?
> > > The last existent snapshot unloads from the official place of firebird and install it with sh instal.sh
> > >
> > > Regards
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> > > || ISMAEL ||
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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: martin.wollner
> > > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:55 AM
> > > Subject: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.0 - cannot attach to password database
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> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have installed the Firebird 2.0 database on a Debian System (via apt-get). Nothing is changed - everything is like at the second after install.
> > >
> > > The problem now is, that everytime I try to connect I receive the error message "cannot attach to password database"
> > >
> > > So far as I know, you receive this message if you are using an old database format (security.fdb has changed to security2.fdb from version 1.5 to 2.0).
> > > So my question - why do I get this error message? I never had version 1.5 or earlier. Firebird 2.0 is the first installation of firebird on this system...
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> > > I found 3 databases in the directory:
> > > /var/lib/firebird/2.0/system:
> > > default-security2.fdb
> > > help.fdb
> > > security.fdb
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> > > So it seems like there is the old one, but how can this be? Does the 2.0 installation deliver the old database?
> > >
> > > And how can I get/upgrade the old one to the new one?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > >
> > > Martin Wollner
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