[Pkg-firebird-general] firebird-s32-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb initscript

[Yves Glodt]

On Monday 21 June 2004 01:20, Remco Seesink wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 01:15:09 +0200
>
> Yves Glodt <yg@mind.lu> wrote:
> > I had the old 1.0 packages installed at some point of time (about
> > 6-12 month ago), but I removed them when they stopped working with
> > the php4-interbase (or vice-versa).
>
> That should work again. I am interested to hear about any problems
> that might still exist.

So far I found no problems. Nice to have the php4-interbase extension 
back :-)

> > Then I converted the firebird-1.03 rpm from their site to a deb
> > with alien, but that package didn't have a firebird startscript
> > neither.
> >
> > I tried installing the new firebird-s32 packages on another box
> > today which never ran firebird before, and all installed correctly,
> > also the /etc/init.d/firebird script was there.
> >
> > So maybe it's related to me having had the old FB-1.0 packages...
> >
> > I think I'm gonna try to remove them with --purge and reinstall
> > them later. Gonna tell the results here.

--purge && reinstall of firebird-s32-server made it work again.

thanks for you suggestions,
Yves

> I couldn't reproduce it on sid either (I did a purge etc.)
> I have a feeling purging will solve your problems. You could try
> these commands:
>
> apt-get remove --purge firebird-server-common libfirebird-s32
> firebird-s32-server
>
> It will also uninstall dependencies like php4-interbase, be carefull
> if you can't reinstall any of them easily. You will also lose your
> user security database.
>
> If this doen't help, could you try these
> commands and note there output in your reply?
>
> dpkg -l *firebird*
> dpkg -S /etc/init.d/firebird
>
> Cheers,
> Remco.

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