Shane, it is not an InnoDB error message. InnoDB messages are always prefixed with
InnoDB: The error means that there is an inconsistent row in the db.MYD system table of MySQL. Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy http://www.innodb.com Foreign keys, transactions, and row level locking for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:22 PM Subject: InnoDB errors > I've searched the archives and was unable to find anything that seemed > pertinent. > > Earlier today I had to stop and start mysql. When I issued mysqladmin > shutdown, however, the process did not die cleanly (reason unknown), and I > ended up having to kill -9 mysqld and mysqld_safe. > > When the DB came back up, I now have the following in my log: > > 031024 11:06:04 mysqld started > 031024 11:06:05 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally. > InnoDB: Starting recovery from log files... > InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at > InnoDB: log sequence number 0 697473956 > InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 697473956 > 031024 11:06:06 InnoDB: Flushing modified pages from the buffer pool... > 031024 11:06:06 InnoDB: Started > 031024 11:06:06 Found an entry in the 'db' table with empty database name; > Skipped > 031024 11:06:06 Found an entry in the 'db' table with empty database name; > Skipped > > ... > > 031024 11:07:53 mysqld started > 031024 11:07:54 InnoDB: Started > 031024 11:07:54 Found an entry in the 'db' table with empty database name; > Skipped > 031024 11:07:54 Found an entry in the 'db' table with empty database name; > Skipped > > as you can see, on the second restart, I did not get warnings about having > to recover the tables, but I still get the 'empty database name' errors. > How can I determine what the cause of this error is an get it fixed? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]