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Article #25614: Guardian cannot start ibserver process

Problem:
Getting error:

    "guardian was unable to launch server thread. errno: 2"



Solution:
This occurred because the customer was using an embedded 
install and was not setting up the registry key for ServerDirectory
correctly.  The customer was not adding the trailing  to the directory
path.  ie:

   WRONG!   c:appsib5.1.1  (This should have a trailing )

    CORRECT!!  c:appsib5.1.1

InterBase appends the server's filename to the end of this registry key.
It does NOT append the trailing slash between the path and the server
filename so that you will end up trying to start the server with a path like:

    c:appsib5.1.1ibserver.exe

which definitely won't work.  

Last Modified: 26-OCT-00