Firebird - database file shutdown error message

Question

I have a problem with my Firebird database. The primary key of one of the tables is referenced by another table that was actually dropped earlier. So this reference from a non-existent table was causing errors when I try to make any changes in the table data.

So I did a backup and restore and the bad reference was gone but now when I try to connect to my database more than once at the same time I get the following error:

database [file path] shutdown

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

Your database (file, not server) has been shutdown, so Firebird does not accept connections for this database until it has been brought online again using gfix.

The command is:

gfix -online <path-to-your-database>

See Database Startup and Shutdown in the Firebird Database Housekeeping Utility manual

Answer 2

use online

gfix  -user "SYSDBA" -password "masterkey"  -online DATA.FDB

after database is used retry

gfix  -user "SYSDBA" -password "masterkey"   -shut -force 0 DATA.FDB