IB Beginner - problems with installation?

Anthony Hopkin

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Sep 25, 2001, 11:13:11 AM9/25/01

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Greetings

I am making my first serious attempt at IB. I have done several trials in
the past few years. These have always been satisfactory - however I have
always put off the big conversion of production systems. I can't now put
things off. It is now M$SQL/IB.

Having successfully downloaded and installed the open src binary

Interbase-WI-6.0.1-server.zip, and using the Getting Started docs, I have
immediately run into problems. Any help would be most welcome. Is this the
wrong version?

IB Manager in Control Panel confirms that IB is started and running - but -

Server Manager will not start - giving the error -

The procedure entry point isc_query_service could not be located in the dll
GDS32.dll

IbConsole

This connects happily to employee.gdb giving full browsing of metadata, data
etc.

but it will not connect to mastsql.gdb giving the error-

Unsupported on-disk structure for file; found 8, support 10.

Database Desktop will not connect to employee.gdb giving the same error -

Unsupported on-disk structure for file; found 8, support 10.

I am using Delphi V-E on a Windows XP (evaluation 2505 - surprisingly good)
m/c. The gdb files being locally accessed are part of the DV-E
installation. I removed the previously installed GDS32.DLL.

I have a (Mandrake) Linux machine ready in case that is a better route.

While I have been programming for more than 20 years (5 in Delphi), I feel a
bit of a babe in arms here.

ThX in advance,

Anthony

David R. Robinson

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Sep 25, 2001, 11:36:18 AM9/25/01

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> The procedure entry point isc_query_service could not be located in
the dll
> GDS32.dll

Your gds32.dll file is old. Uninstall InterBase. Search for all
instances of gds32.dll and delete them. Then reinstall IB.

> This connects happily to employee.gdb giving full browsing of
metadata, data
> etc.
> but it will not connect to mastsql.gdb giving the error-
> Unsupported on-disk structure for file; found 8, support 10.

> Database Desktop will not connect to employee.gdb giving the same
error -
> Unsupported on-disk structure for file; found 8, support 10.

This is because you are using an old version of the open-source that did
not know how to read older format databases. Download the latest
binaries (version 6.0.1.6) from http://mers.com or
http://ibinstall.defined.net and that should fix your problem.

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David R. Robinson
InterBase Installation Info - http://ibinstall.defined.net

Bill Todd (TeamB)

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Sep 25, 2001, 7:24:47 PM9/25/01

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I don't think that 6.0.1.6 will read ODS 8. I believe it just reads 9 and
10. I may be wrong but that was my understanding.

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Bill
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David R. Robinson

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Sep 26, 2001, 11:07:34 AM9/26/01

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> I don't think that 6.0.1.6 will read ODS 8. I believe it just reads 9
and
> 10. I may be wrong but that was my understanding.

True. I overlooked that detail.

Anthony, if you have D6, you can get new versions of the GDB files from
the D6 CD. If not, you'll have to install IB 5.x and create a
transportable backup and then restore it on IB 6 to get it converted to
the new ODS format.

David R.

Anthony Hopkin

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Sep 27, 2001, 12:43:21 PM9/27/01

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Friends

With your pointers.

I have made the first few steps in the right direction

ThX

Anthony H.

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