Problem: Ibserver/ibguardian not starting automatically: On one occasion the ibserver and ibguardian were not starting up automatically even though they were configured for such in Control Panel|Services. We were getting "username and password not defined" errors for the sysdba account which shouldn't happen. Solution: The trouble was resolved by going to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREInterBase CorpInterBaseCurrentVersion and adding the string DefaultMode and giving it the value '-b' for high service startup priority. After rebooting the services started up automatically and I could see ibguardian's start listed in Event Viewer. Interestingly, when I had given the string the '-r' value for normal, I saw ibguardian automatically show up in event viewer with a red flag for the first time.
Last Modified: 28-SEP-00