Open hhfiddelke opened 2 years ago
AlexPeshkoff
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2 years ago On 2/9/22 10:33, Hans H. Fiddelke wrote:
I would request for a future release a more detailed/better explaining error message, that helps a little bit moreand does not show into the wrong direction.
Did you check firebird.log file?
hhfiddelke
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2 years ago Yes, it only returned that starting the service returns error(2)
AlexPeshkoff
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2 years ago On 2/9/22 11:13, Hans H. Fiddelke wrote:
Yes, it only returned that starting the service returns error(2)
Very strange. The fragment of code:
// first tries to log error gds__log_status(path, status);
// next tries to type it on a tty gds__put_error(path); gds__print_status(status);
// finally puts minimal error string to syslog (you've seen it) Firebird::Syslog::Record(Firebird::Syslog::Error, "Security database error");
// exits with status 2 (was logged) exit(STARTUP_ERROR);
I understand why you did not see message on tty w/o '-d' switch, but why did gds__log_status fail? What about /usr/local/firebird & /usr/local/firebird/firebird.log permissions?
hhfiddelke
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2 years ago these permission are/were all O.K.
There was a log entry, but only error(2)
after renaming /tmp/firebird to a different name, starting service as user firebird worked fine.
hhfiddelke
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2 years ago Don't know if this is expected, but perhaps we see the messages, but we can't read them, because they are written black on black😉😎 There are several empty lines in the log. Is this an expected behavior?
AlexPeshkoff
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2 years ago On 2/9/22 14:55, Hans H. Fiddelke wrote:
Don't know if this is expected, but perhaps we see the messages, but we can't read them, because they are written black on black😉😎
FB never controls color in the log.
There are several empty lines in the log. Is this an expected behavior?
Sooner of all not.
hhfiddelke
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2 years ago So is it possible that the log function writes empty log-strings, instead of the values passed to the function, or are the values empty when passed ?
AlexPeshkoff
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2 years ago On 2/9/22 17:36, Hans H. Fiddelke wrote:
So is it possible that the log function writes empty log-strings, instead of the values passed to the function, or are the values empty when passed ?
Hardly possible. I've sumulated your case and got in firebird.log the follwoing:
fbs3 Wed Feb 9 17:46:51 2022 Operating system call access failed. Error code 13
fbs3 Wed Feb 9 17:46:51 2022 ConfigStorage: Cannot initialize the shared memory region operating system directive access failed Permission denied /tmp/firebird/
fbs3 Wed Feb 9 17:46:51 2022 Operating system call access failed. Error code 13
fbs3 Wed Feb 9 17:46:51 2022 ConfigStorage: Cannot initialize the shared memory region operating system directive access failed Permission denied /tmp/firebird/
After installing Firebird 4.0.1 from source on SUSE SLES 15.3 i got the above error message when starting the service. Then i tried to start fbguard -deamon as root which worked fine. After this i changed the service definition file firebird. service to run the service as root, which also worked fine when starting. So this had to be a permission issue, but i found no difference in firebird directories compared to other installations.
While searching for filenames used in firebird, i found the -d (debug) switch. Then i changed the firebird user temporary to allow login. With
su - firebird -c "/usr/local/firebird/bin/firebird -d"i got the hint i needed. It showed me that firebird was not able to access the '/tmp/firebird'- directory that i created as good admin root during installation to contain my installation files, but i created the directory with user root:root not firebird:firebird as required.So this is a short explanation of my odyssey locating the cause for my problem, and probably a hint to others locating similar issues.
I would request for a future release a more detailed/better explaining error message, that helps a little bit moreand does not show into the wrong direction.