Mark Rotteveel mark@... [firebird-support] wrote:

>
> At a minimum I'd suggest that you upgrade to Firebird 2.0.7 and/or check
> the 2.0.7 release notes if 2.0.4 - 2.0.7 contain any bugfixes that might
> hint at a problem like this.

Hmmm... got the 2.0.7.tar.gz from firebirdsql.org and replaced the files
in /usr/bin. When starting the server, got the message that libstdc++.so.5
was missing, so I installed libstdc++-v3-3.3.6-r1 which provides libstdc++.so.5.
But when trying to start the server again, it just says "can not start server",
and all I can find in firebird.log is

fileserver (Client) Sat Jul 12 17:34:40 2014
INET/inet_error: connect errno = 111

Fortunately, I could revert to 2.0.3 by copying back the previously saved
2.0.3 files from /usr/bin.

While I was wondering whether it makes much sense to spend more effort to
get 2.0.7 running, I had another idea: I restored the backuped security2
database to a "just-normal" database. This one *is* readable. Now I know
the usernames and can look for the associated applications and their
passwords. So the upgrade to the newest 2.5.x version should work... :-)

Thanks,
-Matt