For some reason two of my MySQL databases required repair this week. Both were backing Joomla 1.5 installations – our corporate site (grownbypeople.com) and our old news website (informify.com), which we’ve left running.
When browsing to the sites they both produced the same MySQL error #145. And it was the session table that was corrupted on both DBs.
The first thing I thought of was some hack-bot going around exploiting some little-known Joomla vulnerability. But I haven’t been able to find anything about that on the Joomla site. Or elsewhere.
I then wondered if it was perhaps my hosting company, Hostmonster.com. The company president has a blog that sometimes explains strange new behavior in my hosting account. Sure enough there was an entry about changes they’ve been making that may well have had an impact. Turns out they’re switching their storage to Solid State Drives (SSDs).
But then I found a couple old Joomla threads indicating that Joomla has long suffered from periodically corrupted session tables.
Even if it does turn out to be a Joomla issue, why would they both happen pretty much on the same day? I’ve never seen it before.
If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know.
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