Re: Re: LOCK TABLES

[Dan Buettner]

Hmmm, sounds like something's pretty abnormal here.  Any idea what may
have been done here?

I wonder if you could step around this with a call to mysqldump that
doesn't explicitly lock tables ... what is the commad you're running
again?

Dan


On 10/16/06, mdpeters <mdpeters@stripped> wrote:
> I tried mv archive.frm .archive.frm first. Then I ran mysqldump again.
> It moves past archive and onto another table. I did this 6 times, each
> time moving the next one it complained about until I stopped and put
> them all back.
>
> Dan Buettner wrote:
>
> > Try looking in the filesystem for the file(s) called "archive" in the
> > database directory, and move them somewhere else (or if you know you
> > don't need them, delete them).
> >
> > If it is/was a MyISAM table, or just an errant file, this should work.
> > If it is/was InnoDB, this will be trickier ...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > On 10/16/06, mdpeters <mdpeters@stripped> wrote:
> >
> >> As you can see, it is clearly showing up but I cannot do anything
> >> with it.
> >>
> >> mysql> show tables;
> >> +---------------------+
> >> | Tables_in_horsewiki |
> >> +---------------------+
> >> | archive             |
> >> | categorylinks       |
> >> | externallinks       |
> >> | hitcounter          |
> >> | horse_archive       |
> >> | horse_categorylinks |
> >> | horse_externallinks |
> >> | horse_hitcounter    |
> >> | horse_image         |
> >> | horse_imagelinks    |
> >> | horse_interwiki     |
> >> | horse_ipblocks      |
> >> | horse_job           |
> >> | horse_logging       |
> >> | horse_math          |
> >> | horse_objectcache   |
> >> | horse_oldimage      |
> >> | horse_page          |
> >> | horse_pagelinks     |
> >> | horse_querycache    |
> >> | horse_recentchanges |
> >> | horse_revision      |
> >> | horse_searchindex   |
> >> | horse_site_stats    |
> >> | horse_templatelinks |
> >> | horse_text          |
> >> | horse_trackbacks    |
> >> | horse_transcache    |
> >> | horse_user          |
> >> | horse_user_groups   |
> >> | horse_user_newtalk  |
> >> | horse_validate      |
> >> | horse_watchlist     |
> >> | image               |
> >> | imagelinks          |
> >> | interwiki           |
> >> | ipblocks            |
> >> | job                 |
> >> | logging             |
> >> | math                |
> >> | objectcache         |
> >> | oldimage            |
> >> | page                |
> >> | pagelinks           |
> >> | querycache          |
> >> | recentchanges       |
> >> | revision            |
> >> | searchindex         |
> >> | site_stats          |
> >> | templatelinks       |
> >> | text                |
> >> | trackbacks          |
> >> | transcache          |
> >> | user                |
> >> | user_groups         |
> >> | user_newtalk        |
> >> | validate            |
> >> | watchlist           |
> >> +---------------------+
> >> 58 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> >>
> >> mysql> SELECT * FROM archive LIMIT 1;
> >> ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'horsewiki.archive' doesn't exist
> >>
> >> mysql> drop table archive;
> >> ERROR 1051 (42S02): Unknown table 'archive'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dan Buettner wrote:
> >>
> >> > Michael, is the 'archive' table present in your database?  e.g., if
> >> > you do a 'LIST TABLES', does it show up?  What happens if you do a
> >> > "SELECT * FROM archive LIMIT 1" ?
> >> >
> >> > I'd hazard a guess that you may have a table definition file with no
> >> > actual table data files, if you're on MyISAM tables.
> >> >
> >> > If you don't need the archive table, can you DROP it successfully?
> >> >
> >> > Dan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 10/16/06, mdpeters <mdpeters@stripped> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I am having a devil of a time moving a database from one server to
> >> >> another. My database is one that is in production to support the
> >> >> mediawiki wiki application. This is a Solaris Sparc 10 system
> >> using the
> >> >> mysql-max-5.0.20a-solaris10-sparc version. My database name is
> >> >> horsewiki.
> >> >>
> >> >> I execute this:
> >> >> # mysqldump --user root --password=password horsewiki >
> horsewiki.sql
> >> >> and get this:
> >> >> mysqldump: Got error: 1146: Table 'horsewiki.archive' doesn't
> >> exist when
> >> >> using LOCK TABLES
> >> >>
> >> >> I have tried using phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.2. It seems to let me export
> the
> >> >> database to an SQL file. When I attempt to import it on the other
> >> >> system, I get this:
> >> >> ++++++++
> >> >> Error
> >> >>
> >> >> There seems to be an error in your SQL query. The MySQL server
> error
> >> >> output below, if there is any, may also help you in diagnosing the
> >> >> problem
> >> >>
> >> >> ERROR: Unknown Punctuation String @ 494
> >> >> STR: />
> >> >> SQL: -- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
> >> >> -- version 2.9.0.2
> >> >> -- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
> >> >> --
> >> >> -- Host: localhost
> >> >> -- Generation Time: Oct 16, 2006 at 10:00 AM
> >> >> -- Server version: 5.0.20
> >> >> -- PHP Version: 5.1.6
> >> >> --
> >> >> -- Database: `horsewiki`
> >> >> --
> >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> >> >>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> >> >> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"
> lang="en"
> >> >> dir="ltr">
> >> >> <head>
> >> >>     <link rel="icon" href="./favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"
> />
> >> >>     <link rel="shortcut icon" href="./favicon.ico"
> >> >> type="image/x-icon" />
> >> >>     <title>phpMyAdmin</title>
> >> >>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> >> >> charset=utf-8" />
> >> >>     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> >> >>
> >>
> href="./css/phpmyadmin.css.php?token=7c73a56802fc2e39fe41180d721&amp;js_frame=right"
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> />
> >> >>     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> >> >> href="./css/print.css?token=7c73a56802fc2ee8b4239fe721"
> >> media="print" />
> >> >>     <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
> >> >>     // <![CDATA[
> >> >>     // Updates the title of the frameset if possible (ns4 does not
> >> allow
> >> >> this)
> >> >>     if (typeof(parent.document) != 'undefined' &&
> >> >> typeof(parent.document) != 'unknown'
> >> >>         && typeof(parent.document.title) == 'string') {
> >> >>         parent.document.title = 'www.lazarusalliance.com /
> >> localhost /
> >> >> horsewiki / archive | phpMyAdmin 2.9.0.2';
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> SQL query:
> >> >>
> >> >> -- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump -- version 2.9.0.2 --
> >> http://www.phpmyadmin.net
> >> >> -- -- Host: localhost -- Generation Time: Oct 16, 2006 at 10:00 AM
> --
> >> >> Server version: 5.0.20 -- PHP Version: 5.1.6 -- -- Database:
> >> >> `horsewiki` --
> >> >> ++++++++
> >> >>
> >> >> I have not found a good source to understand what the problem
> >> might be.
> >> >> It does not help that I am such a greenhorn with databases either.
> I
> >> >> would appreciate any assistance.
> >> >>
> >> >> Michael
> >> >>
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> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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