Hi Tony,

> This is just getting worse. Now I have tried to stop the FB service and
> it has hung in the stopping status. Cannot kill it from taskManager.

Well, I've often found that Task manager cannot kill a lot of things! I
use ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals - that seems to be able to kill
everything!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896653

> Any ideas?

I'm not so sure killing the FB server is a good idea. Especially as you
mentioned have 8 other databases/applications running.

Check for messages in the firebird.log file, usually found under
c:\Program files\firebird\firebird_x_x on your server. (x_x being the
version of Firebird you are running.)


Cheers,
Norman.

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