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HELP - messages disappeared after database repair [message #158822]

Wed, 01 April 2009 04:26

michiamano

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The database became corrupted and I ran the FUDForum admin routine.

On the advice of Bluehost's tech support, I also ran a repair on the database in PHPmyAdmin.

Now the forum comes up, forums are listed, shows message counts, but when you go into a forum, they all show 'no messages'.

I have only pretty lightweight mySQL skills and I don't even know where to start fixing this problem.

I have various recent backups - both from within FUDforum and an SQL dump done with PHPmyAdmin. These will be of the corrupted database, though.

Thanks for any advice on where to start.

[Updated on: Wed, 01 April 2009 04:27]

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Re: HELP - messages disappeared after database repair [message #158823 is a reply to message #158822]

Wed, 01 April 2009 09:15

naudefj

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Message bodies are stored on disk, not in the database. Check if they are still there (FUDdata/messages directory). If required, restore them from a recent backup.

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Re: HELP - messages disappeared after database repair [message #158824 is a reply to message #158823]

Wed, 01 April 2009 12:49

michiamano

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naudefj wrote on Wed, 01 April 2009 05:15

Message bodies are stored on disk, not in the database. Check if they are still there (FUDdata/messages directory). If required, restore them from a recent backup.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that but I suspect that the problem lies in the database, not the message store, since the problem followed after a failed attempt to repair the corrupted database.

Any other suggestions?

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Re: HELP - messages disappeared after database repair [message #158825 is a reply to message #158824]

Wed, 01 April 2009 13:26

naudefj

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Maybe it wasn't just your DB that got corrupted. Please check and let us know. I would also like to know what version of FUDforum you're using and what "admin routine" you followed.

To trace the message path:

1. Pick a message and write down its message number (look for something like "message #528" in the header).

2. Query the file_id and offset where the message is stored. For example:

SELECT file_id, foff, length FROM fud28_msg WHERE id = 528;
10000	976757	2092

3. Look for the file with the selected file_id in your messages directory - in our case msg_10000.

4. Check if the file contains the message body at the selected offset:

$ od -a -j 976757 -b 2092  msg_10000

Best of luck.

Frank

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