Cryptic Sybase Errors
Recently, I saw an error like this from Sybase:
Sybase Client Msg - Msg #: 101188865 Severity: 5 [ct_connect(): directory service layer: internal directory control layer error: There was an error encountered while binding to the directory service.]
We originally noticed it in some C code, but basically the same error popped up when using isql. We surmised that it was not (directly) a database problem, because it only happened on one machine, and we were able to connect to the same database successfully from other machines.
In the end, we tracked it down to a Sybase interfaces file whose mode had inadvertently been changed... it was no longer readable. Changing the permissions solved the problem.