Down at the Farm 2
I was just greeted with the dreaded “Unable to connect to database” error message. (That’s the same error that led to my losing three months of posts three years ago and into my first venture in BASH scripting).
Not good.
I logged into my hosting account and, fortunately, was able to connect to the blog database with phpmyadmin, so the database wasn’t toast, just slightly singed. I ran a check, a repair, and an optimize on it and, violin, I’m back.
Now back to studying Grub.
April 22, 2011 at 12:04 pm
This has happened to me a couple times with WP. It’s almost always the wp_options table that’s fallen over. An even bigger problem that presents is a bug in WP I can’t get away from. When the database falls over WP presents its ‘install’ screen.
The badness of this is described here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/escape_from_blogger/page2.html
Obviously, I eventually went back to WP. However, they’ve never stamped out this flaw.
April 22, 2011 at 9:30 pm
That’s one I haven’t seen.
Yet.
Thanks for the heads up.