I usually use the Alt-F2 shortcut and I type in sql:/ You can also do this directly in the location bar. It works really nice. If you have mysql, postgresql, etc, make sure you have the proper QT connections or it won't work. --andy On Monday 28 March 2005 3:24 am, John Andersen wrote:

On Sunday 27 March 2005 09:32 pm, Andy Choens wrote:

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konqueror, and OpenOffice.org all get errors.

Not to side track you from your quest for an answer... How do you access mysql thru Kong?

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I gave it a try and I got this as a return. mysql.columns_priv OK mysql.db OK mysql.func OK mysql.host OK mysql.tables_priv OK mysql.user OK mysql.user_info OK tlp.adults OK tlp.campers OK I tried to edit the table again, and same result. --andy On Monday 28 March 2005 3:53 am, Brad Dameron wrote:

Sounds like a corrupt table. Run this command from the commandline as root:

mysqlcheck -r -A

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Choens" To: Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:32 PM Subject: [SLE] MySQL Table Locked?

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Just joined the list because of this really bizarre problem. I'm using 9.2 on a laptop. I'll describe the basic structure of my database, and what's going on. If I leave out any important details, tell me, and I'll do my best to fill them in.

I am using the default mysql rpm that came with 9.2 + any updates that YAST told me to do. The only thing not stock on this machine is the upgraded KDE (3.4) that I'm using, but I don't think that has anything to do with this. I don have a couple of other programs installed, like tora, but I don't think they are the problem either.

I have a database called tlp. Within TLP I have a number of actual tables. I can edit, update, delete, etc. all of the tables but one. For instance, if I go into the table "participants" via konqueror, and edit a row, everything works just fine. In fact, I do this several times a week as I update the information on my participants. But, enrollement is pretty stable. Now I need to update the information in one row in this table, and I can't. Tora gets errors, mysqlcc gets errors, konqueror, and OpenOffice.org all get errors. But, they don't get ANY errors on any other table in the database. The others work just like they should. This table used to work like it should. I can't figure out what I've done, or how to undo it.

I have the mysql-administrator installed, and don't see anything to change with it, and I looked through the documentation with mysql, and tried to unlock my tables, thinking some program had thrown a lock on it, but no dice. I still can't update my table.

If you have any ideas, suggestions, of kludges to get me up and running, I'd appreciate it! -- Alex Lowe's 3 Rules for Climbing: 1 - Come Back Alive! 2 - Come Back Still Friends With Your Partners! 3 - Get To The Top!

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On Monday 28 March 2005 3:53 am, Brad Dameron wrote:

Sounds like a corrupt table. Run this command from the commandline as root:

mysqlcheck -r -A

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In one last attempt to get this to work, I dropped the entire schema, and restored it. I get the exact same error pattern I have previously described. I'm going to try and see if anyone on a mysql list has any ideas....... --andy

On Monday 28 March 2005 8:21 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Monday 2005-03-28 at 16:37 -0500, Andy Choens wrote:

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In one last attempt to get this to work, I dropped the entire schema, and restored it. I get the exact same error pattern I have previously described.

I'm going to try and see if anyone on a mysql list has any ideas.......

I know very little about this, but when I created a table I found that I could not have a field named "index", I had a lot of problems and had to rename it to "indice" instead. I was using rekall and mysql (suse 9.1).

It is just a wild guess, change fields names. Who knows, it might work :-)

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Thanks, but I don't have any fields named index. What's confusing is how is USED to work. Something has changed somewhere else. I didn't change the table, it just quit working. --andy -- Alex Lowe's 3 Rules for Climbing: 1 - Come Back Alive! 2 - Come Back Still Friends With Your Partners! 3 - Get To The Top!

I am not a DBA but using webmin to connect to mysql there is an icon for table permissions that looks like you can change permissions for individual tables. Maybe something has go wrong there. Just a suggestion for something else to try before you pull all of your hair out.

Well, I downloaded webmin and set it up. So far so good. It's not the interface I would like, but I don't seem to get any errors this way. Of course, I'm editing the table as root, so it had better let me do what ever the heck I want! :-) I'm going to install usermin and see if that helps any. If it does, at least I'll be able to use webmin while I figure out the root of my difficulty. It certainly gives my back access to my database, which is incredibly nice. Thanks for the idea. I'm going play around with these permissions more. --andy

Andy, Presuming that you've already tried the UNLOCK TABLES-command and it didn't help... I've seen similar problems (w/ 4.0.18). Found out this: - If you make a complete copy of the database, eg. database 'data1' to 'data2' the new database ('data2') is not locked. (which proves that the data itself is okay, I think) - If you then remove the old database ('data1') and rename 'data2' to 'data1' it stops working, => locked. - If you simply rename 'data1' to 'data2' it works. So there must be a 'flag' or 'tag' or something in the mysql (system) database that tells MySQL that the database is locked. Now, what I didn't try was the following sequence: - Copy 'data1' to 'data2' - DROP DATABASE data1; - rename 'data2' to 'data1' I intended to do a little more research in MySQL's own database mysql, but I stupidly first upgraded to 4.1 - only to find out that the old database was 'unlocked' again. (Guess that something in mysql got overwritten) I do not think that 4.1 fixed it, only that it cleared the 'tag', so I'm waiting for the problem appear again, and then I'll try to catch it. Marty On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:09, Andy Choens wrote:

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I am not a DBA but using webmin to connect to mysql there is an icon for table permissions that looks like you can change permissions for individual tables. Maybe something has go wrong there. Just a suggestion for something else to try before you pull all of your hair out.

Well, I downloaded webmin and set it up. So far so good. It's not the interface I would like, but I don't seem to get any errors this way. Of course, I'm editing the table as root, so it had better let me do what ever the heck I want! :-)

I'm going to install usermin and see if that helps any. If it does, at least I'll be able to use webmin while I figure out the root of my difficulty. It certainly gives my back access to my database, which is incredibly nice.

Thanks for the idea. I'm going play around with these permissions more.

--andy