On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:44 AM, guilherme.bradasch wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing something weird with Firebird after I upgraded my OSX to > Lion (10.7). On Snow Leopard, everything ran smoothly. After the upgrade, I > couldn't connect with any fdb on my local machine. > > After reinstalling (I use FirebirdCS-2.1.4-18393-lipo - I need both 32 and 64 > bits libraries), I can connect to local databases only if they are not on my > home directory (/Users/guimas). It always gives me a "permission denied", no > matter what the file attributes are. > > I've chown the fdb file to firebird:firebird and chmod it to a+r and a+w, and > it didn't help. > > I created a directory in /var/lib/firebird, chmod and chown it, and fdbs > there work. > > Looking at the firebird.log, I have this message, when I try to connect to a > fdb in my home folder: > > imacguimas Wed Aug 10 10:01:45 2011 > operating system directive semctl failed > > imacguimas Wed Aug 10 10:01:45 2011 > Permission denied > > So... It works perfectly if the fdbs are not in the home folder. Is that a > bug introduced by Lion? ---- probably not - you probably tinkered with the permissions on your $HOME directory in Snow Leopard because defaults are not to let other users into most of the folders.
Put your DB's somewhere inside your 'Public' or 'Sites' directories in your $HOME or make a new directory inside your $HOME that allows others read/write access Craig
