Hi.
I downloaded a new version of fdb through github releases (7.3.42) without fully uninstalling the previous one. fdbmonitor boots fine, so does fdbcli, but it seems that fdbserver “hangs”.
The problem is relatively urgent
Thank you
What exactly is hanging? Is the fdbserver process in trouble (which you can tell from fdbserver logs or activity monitor etc), or is the problem that the client is hanging when trying to connect to fdbserver?
One thing to note is that different FDB minor versions are not cross-version compatible, and an FDB client will hang if it tries to connect to a a server running a different version. If you’ve partially uninstalled the old binaries, there may be an old libfdb_c.dylib hanging around in your /usr/local/lib/ path, and that could be the issue. Note that fdbcli actually doesn’t use that library, so if fdbcli can still successfully connect to the database but other clients cannot, that can be the trouble.
I’m still a little surprised that using the .pkg wouldn’t have replaced the library files, though.