Hi Norman

The FB server finally stopped and restarted. The restart bought the
problem database online. I will also check the log file.

Thanks for all your help. I am out of the woods I hope.

Cheers
Tony

Norman Dunbar wrote:

>
>
> 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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