[mythtv-users] Cannot drop mythconverg

[Fedor Pikus]

On 10/14/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/10/06, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had a disk failure in my myth box, and the filesystem was damaged. I
> > have backups of mysql database, but I need to drop the existing one
> > first. But here's the problem: when I do "drop database mythconverg;"
> > mysql hangs. How can I force the database to go away?
>
> Run mysqlcheck (or the /contrib optimise_mythdb.pl script) and then
> try again - perhaps the database needs to be sanitised properly before
> you can cleanly access it. If this doesn't work, you could try
> removing the database directly (from disk) or even remove MySQL and
> then reinstall it.

mysqlcheck also hangs. Where is the database on disk?

>
> Nick
>
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