On 17-4-2019 15:10, myles@... [firebird-support] wrote:

> Yes, but gfix refuses to shutdown the database to single user
> maintenance mode if there are any existing connections to it.  That is
> the main problem - I need to kill those connections and prevent new ones
> from spawning so that I can shutdown the database with gfix first.

You can force a shutdown of the database.

See
https://firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/gfix-dbstartstop.html

You could also try by first shutting down accepting no new transactions
(or connections), followed by a forced shutdown if that fails.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel