Subject Installing Firebird on Fedora 26
Author Allan Jardine
Post date 2017-10-01T16:26:22Z
Hi all,

I'm running into a problem installing Firebird on Fedora 26.

I grabbed `Firebird-3.0.2.32703-0` from the download page ( https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-3-0/#Linux_x86 ), untar'ed it and ran `sudo ./install.sh`.

It installs a bunch of files, asked for a new password and then:

   ./install.sh: line 168: /opt/firebird/bin/gsec: No such file or directory

   Fatal error running 'systemctl --quiet start firebird-superserver.service' - exiting

`systemctl status firebird-superserver` shows:

  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[1]: Starting Firebird Database Server ( SuperServer )...
  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[9812]: firebird-superserver.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/firebird/bin/fbguard: No such file or directory
  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[1]: firebird-superserver.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[1]: Failed to start Firebird Database Server ( SuperServer ).
  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[1]: firebird-superserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
  Oct 01 17:22:07 stargazer systemd[1]: firebird-superserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Fairly weird. So I `cd /opt/firebird/bin`, then `ls -l` and get:

-rwx------. 1 root root  43198 Oct  1 17:21 changeServerMode.sh
-rwx------. 1 root root   2976 Oct  1 17:21 fb_config
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  85748 Mar 21  2017 fbguard
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 297304 Mar 21  2017 fb_lock_print
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 139408 Mar 21  2017 fbsvcmgr
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 135988 Mar 21  2017 fbtracemgr
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 683856 Mar 21  2017 firebird
-r-x------. 1 root root  43543 Oct  1 17:21 FirebirdUninstall.sh
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 748124 Mar 21  2017 gbak
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 162156 Mar 21  2017 gfix
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 601764 Mar 21  2017 gpre
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 341588 Mar 21  2017 gsec
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  93536 Mar 21  2017 gsplit
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 281396 Mar 21  2017 gstat
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 696636 Mar 21  2017 isql
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 273428 Mar 21  2017 nbackup
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 525316 Mar 21  2017 qli
-rwx------. 1 root root   3536 Oct  1 17:21 registerDatabase.sh

More weird! Then: `sudo ./fbguard` and:

  sudo: unable to execute ./fbguard: No such file or directory

Very weird! I can't explain that. The file is present but it doesn't appear to be when I attempt to execute it. Perhaps this is something more Fedora related that Firebird, but I've not had any problems with any other software on F26.

Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Allan