From: Michael Widenius Date: April 20 1999 10:45pm Subject: who can help me? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/2146 Message-Id: <14109.822.592504.508511@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, friends: Who can help me. Sometimes when I enter mysql, I get the following = messages: =20 Didn't find any fields in table 'select_detail' Didn't find any fields in table 'software_description' Didn't find any fields in table 'software_supplier' Didn't find any fields in table 'specification' mysql> And, after I restart my DB, everything is Ok. I don't know why? Xiaoxia Zhao Hi! Please repost with mysqlbug script + a full example of your problem, including a full test that also shows any possible error messages. We need more information about your MySQL version and OS to be able to help you. You can find information how to do a correct bug report at: http://www.tcx.se/Manual_chapter/manual_Questions.html#Asking_questions PLEASE read the above before reposting your question, this will save us all a lot of time! Sorry for the short answer, but as we get a couple of hundred mails/day we don't have time to answer questions that are already documented or doesn't contain all information needed to give a quick exact answer. Yours, Monty PS: It's very likely that you are running out of file descriptors. Please take a look at http://www.tcx.se/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html in the section that describes your OS.