need help with a forum

[dalekkiller]

Hi guys a forum I visit regularly can no longer be accessed.

See here http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/forum/

I was wondering what should I do?

[Matthew T]

Execute the hostages one by one until it comes back

[Rob McCow]

Weird - do you have contact details for any of the admin team there? Sadly it's not one I've heard of.

[Dirk Gently]

I just tried the link, it works for me. It's the mail watch forum.

[Stuart Wallis]

Execute the hostages one by one until it comes back

I see my methods are being applied at last...

[dalekkiller]

It seems to go down every weekend now this is really starting to piss me off

[dalekkiller]

It's gone down again. I'm actually worried that the Daily Mail have got to the forum

[dalekkiller]

It's gone down again. I'm actually worried that the Daily Mail have got to the forum

[Philipnet]

"Table './mailwatchforumnew/phpbb_newsessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired"
Piece of cake to fix.

[dalekkiller]

Oh right How can it be fixed then Philip? and since it is a piece of cake to fix how come it still hasn't been fixed? I'm sorry being unable to access mail watch is starting to get to me

[Philipnet]

Hmm.
It looks to be running on a server going by the name bdm.enta.net, running FreeBSD with the database on the same machine.

To fix the issue:
With MySQL access issue the commands:

use mailwatchforumnew
repair table phpbb_newsessions;

That will fix the immediate issue - presuming there is nothing else wrong with the server (like a full disk).

It does beg the question as to how the table became corrupted in the first place?, why the site keeps having problems? (and if it's the same error message every time)? and then what can be done about it?

[dalekkiller]

Well since August the forum has in fact been working very well with the forum not going down at all since then. I haven't got my MySQL unfortunately.

[dalekkiller]

Forum's still down. This is getting beyond a joke

[Wayne]

Working now.