On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:23:53 +0400, Ted Miglautsch <theomigs@...>
wrote:

> It happened again. Suddenly I lost the ability to locally access a
> database. This is firebird 2.1 running on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> If I try and access the database using isql I get "Permission denied."
> However, "ls -l" shows I have ownership and rights to the file. I can
> even dump the file. It seems firebird is trying to access some other
> file besides the database when I try to connect to the database. When I
> reboot the machine I have normal access again. The firebird log file
> contains absolutely nothing.

Your database is accessed through the Firebird server: does Firebird
server have access rights to the database file?