Suddenly (I don't know what caused it!), it was
no longer possible to connect to one of our
databases. Other databases worked ok.

This was found in firebird.log (along with quite a few 10054 errors):
Database: ...\prod.fdb25 (full path, but it was accessed via an alias)
Internal Firebird consistency check (partner
index description not found (175), file: idx.cpp line: 1346)

The Firebird version is 2.5.1.26351, SuperServer.
I don't recall the Windows version, but it
probably is something like 2008server (R2) -
running in a VM. There are only Firebird
databases running on this server. And some AV s/w (Nod32, I think).

The Firebird service was stopped, and the Windows
server was rebooted (we did an update of some
VMware software which included the reboot).
After this we could sucessfully connect.
We ran a gfix –v –n
which terminated (after 10 minutes or so) without any messages.

Q's:
Should we do something/anything (to check the health of the database)?
What could cause such a problem?
We hardly ever experience problems with our
Firebird databases, even so, maybe there are precautions to be taken?


TiA
Aage J.