At 04:23 AM 15/12/2011, Kevin Stanton wrote:

>I have a customer that is down - can't start my application and this entry
>jumped out at me from firebird.log:
>
>DATA01 Wed Dec 14 07:05:25 2011
>
> SERVER/process_packet: broken port, server exiting
>
>Environment:
>Win 2003 Server R2
>6 GB Ram
>Plenty of disk space
>FB Classic 1.56
>
>Any help deciphering the above message would be greatly appreciated.

It's the server's response to a network error that broke the connection between a client and the server. You will almost certainly find some preceding network errors that might give a clue as to what failed. Usually, it's a faulty network connection; if you see lots of them, it's more likely the fault is on the server's card; if it's consistently associated with one workstation, look there first.

Of course, you would first eliminate the possibility that the user simply crashed out of the app while an operation was under way.

./heLen