out of curiousity, what's wrong with the lockd daemon? something easy to
fix? anyhow, i found the real problem... another question. d'ya think it
would be risky to toss a little script in the startup files to
automatically repair all databases before starting mysqld? something
like...
for B in /usr/local/mysql/var/*ISM; do /usr/local/mysql/bin/isamchk -r $B; done
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tani hosokawa
river styx internet
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Michael Widenius wrote:
> >>>>> "unknown" == unknown <unknown@stripped> writes:
>
> unknown> Hmm... well, I'm using Linux. I just checked on the server, and there
> unknown> wasn't any kind of problem so far... When I get the table screwups,
> MySQL
> unknown> statys running just fine. I can do queries on the other tables. In
> fact,
> unknown> I can even do some operationsm like count(*), it just seems to bail on
> unknown> inserts. Should I put --skip-locking?
>
> unknown> ---
> unknown> tani hosokawa
> unknown> river styx internet
>
> On Linux you must use --skip-locking. (The lockd daemon is buggy)
>
> Note that if you run 'isamchk' without -r on a table that mysqld is
> updating, you will get warnings that the table is corrupted even if it
> isn't. You will however not get warnings for correct tables.
>
> Please read the manual section 'What to do if MySQL keeps crashing'.
> If mysqld doesn't die, it should be fairly easy to make a test that
> shows the above problem.
>
> How have you compiled mysql? I found out a couple of days ago that if
> one increases the 'N_MAX_KEY_LENGTH' flag over 256 one may get
> problems in some context. Apart from the above, I am not aware of
> any bugs that would crash the tables.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
>
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