At 05:27 PM 9/10/2011, you wrote:

>OK,
>
>I use ubuntu lucid ( 10.04 )
>I have got all the way to
>
>installing and running firebird 2.1 super
>installing and running flamerobin
>
>every time i try to create a database i get this:
>
>Engine Code : 335544344
>Engine Message :
>I/O error for file "/opt/data/firebird/blank/blank.fdb"
>Error while trying to create file
>Permission denied
>
>i have no idea.

The permission you are being denied is the write permission to /opt/data/firebird/blank/. With su privileges, make yourself a member of the firebird group and make sure to give rwx permissions to the firebird group in /opt/data/ and any subdirs beneath it where you will want to create or restore databases.

./heLen