[Firebird-devel] Firebird install bug on Mandriva, and Fix...

[Alain M. <al...@po...>]

I just subscribed to this list for a single purpose: Report one bug and 
it's fix... I have been redirected here my Helen, moderator of the 
firebird-general list. I HOPE that here this will find it's way to 
someone who can fix it :)

It's about FirebirdSS-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.tar.gz install in Mandriva 
Linux, and is probably present in other versions too.

The problem is that after running the install.sh script, firebird runs 
ok, but after a reboot it doen't load anymore. This is caused because 
the initialization script is configured as pririty 20 and thus is loaded 
too early. It has some dependencies and should be loaded much later, 
recomended priotity for what I could find should be 80.

To fix this, the file
   buildroot.tar.gz/opt/firebird/misc/firebird.init.d.mandrake
in line 3 that contains;
   # chkconfig: 345 20 80
Should be
   # chkconfig: 345 80 20
this is a parameter for chkconfig meaning: 345=> to be used in these 
runlevels, 80=> start priority, 20=> stop priority.

As a workaround after installing the buggy version, the startup links 
can be renamed with this:
mv -fv /etc/rc3.d/S20firebird /etc/rc3.d/S80firebird
mv -fv /etc/rc4.d/S20firebird /etc/rc4.d/S80firebird
mv -fv /etc/rc5.d/S20firebird /etc/rc5.d/S80firebird

I hope that this finds it's way for a fix. Thanks,
Alain