Thanks for the answer, putting it in a new folder under $HOME works, as long as I set the permissions correctly (as I have done before, but in my "Documents" folder under $HOME).

Now to add to the plot, I tried the SuperServer version, and under Snow Leopard everything runs fine (including fdbs under the "Documents" folder), but in Lion I get "INET connect error: errorno = 61" (something near that).

Trying to start the server manually doesn't work. It always gives me this error, and then I did not manage to connect to the server.

Now, is that something that was included in Lion? Seems the server is not initializing, or is not able to make connections to the client.

Thanks a lot,

Guilherme

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Craig White <craig.white@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:44 AM, guilherme.bradasch wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm experiencing something weird with Firebird after I upgraded my OSX to Lion (10.7). On Snow Leopard, everything ran smoothly. After the upgrade, I couldn't connect with any fdb on my local machine.
> >
> > After reinstalling (I use FirebirdCS-2.1.4-18393-lipo - I need both 32 and 64 bits libraries), I can connect to local databases only if they are not on my home directory (/Users/guimas). It always gives me a "permission denied", no matter what the file attributes are.
> >
> > I've chown the fdb file to firebird:firebird and chmod it to a+r and a+w, and it didn't help.
> >
> > I created a directory in /var/lib/firebird, chmod and chown it, and fdbs there work.
> >
> > Looking at the firebird.log, I have this message, when I try to connect to a fdb in my home folder:
> >
> > imacguimas Wed Aug 10 10:01:45 2011
> > operating system directive semctl failed
> >
> > imacguimas Wed Aug 10 10:01:45 2011
> > Permission denied
> >
> > So... It works perfectly if the fdbs are not in the home folder. Is that a bug introduced by Lion?
> ----
> probably not - you probably tinkered with the permissions on your $HOME directory in Snow Leopard because defaults are not to let other users into most of the folders.
>
> Put your DB's somewhere inside your 'Public' or 'Sites' directories in your $HOME or make a new directory inside your $HOME that allows others read/write access
>
> Craig
>