Using version 2.0.15.
When anybody tries to send a PM the following error comes up:
smf_mail_queue' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed
File: /var/www/humboldttuna/smf/Sources/ScheduledTasks.php
Line: 931
but they message is sent and received.
Now I see that it loops logging this error every minute. I have to delete the error log daily as it has 100's of pages.
I've tried to go through phpMyAdmin to fix the table but it fails. So I delete it and it get recreated and starts logging the same message.
What to do??
Thank you in advance.
Bob
How are you deleting the table in phpmyadmin?
And then rerunning the create table to rebuild smf_mail_queue
It will not allow me to do a repair as that message comes up and dumps me out. So I believe (I haven't done this in a while; just putting up with it) I try to do a drop. So it either do the drop or the program recreates the table. The table is also marked as "in use."
Thanks.
Bob
Disable mail queue, you should be able to drop table. If you can't create clean table, import one from a scratch install.
Drop the table then remake as follows
CREATE TABLE smf_mail_queue (
id_mail int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
time_sent int(10) NOT NULL default '0',
recipient varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
body text NOT NULL,
subject varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
headers text NOT NULL,
send_html tinyint(3) NOT NULL default '0',
priority tinyint(3) NOT NULL default '1',
private tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (id_mail),
KEY time_sent (time_sent),
KEY mail_priority (priority, id_mail)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;
Or import attached.
Thanks much Guys. I'll give this all a shot in the AM when I can get the people off and go into maintenance.
Bob
@vbgamer making the table as MyISAM with the churn it has is why it crashes, should really use InnoDB. And need to check if the user is using UTF-8 or not to get the correct collation (without matching this up, other bad stuff happens)
Great points ^^^. Bob keep those changes in mind. Check your original tables structure. You can run SHOW CREATE TABLE smf_mail_queue
You can change
ENGINE=MyISAM
To
ENGINE= InnoDB
The UTF8 step Arantor is talking about is if your forum was converted or set to UTF8 and it would change the statement to this
ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_general_ci;
OK, this is what I have found... since I didn't install the system (plausible deniability) the tables are MyIsam and the collation latin1_swedish_ci. So can I change this through the myPhpAdmin control panel (all tables or just the crashed one)?? I assume that I will have to be in Maintenance Mode to keep users out.
When I start messing with a large database in areas where I am not familiar I get a pit in the stomach ;-)
Thanks for all the assistance!
Bob