Michael Gale wrote: > Hello, > > Earlier today I tried to make some table alterations on a mysql server > (4.0.24) and kept on receiving this error: > > ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query > > I would login to the server, either through the socket or using the > IP. Then connect to a database and try the following: > > CREATE INDEX hostdate ON syslog (machine,date1); > > There are about 3 million rows .. about a minute or two into the > command I would get disconnected. Sometimes I could log back but not > others, I tried seaching google and the only answer I found was "This > is fix the in the next release of 5.X.X". > > This does not help as I am stuck with 4.0.X right now. > > How can I fix this ? > > Michael > Is the server crashing? What does your error log say? If you're using 4.0.x, then my first hunch would be table corruption. Have you checked for that yet?
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