Can you help? Error 1034 - HELP

Dear guys,

I am getting this message on my website now. I can still access to the ADMIN page but the website is completely DOWN.

Error Message:

1034 Incorrect key file for table 'whos_online'; try to repair it

Please advise

Thanks in advance

Andrew

I'm not an expert in this area, but this is a MySQL error that appears to be suggesting that your whos_online table structure is corrupt. As you still have access to the Admin, you might be able to get around it by turning off the whos online sidebox - but that's a complete guess, otherwise I suspect that you have some work to do to rebuild at least that table in the datbase (probably by dropping and recreating it) using a tool such as phpMyAdmin.

Make sure you have backups.

You could also go into phpMyAdmin and run this in the SQL for your database ...

This will drop the table and remake it fresh:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS whos_online;
CREATE TABLE whos_online (
  customer_id int(11) default NULL,
  full_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
  session_id varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
  ip_address varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
  time_entry varchar(14) NOT NULL default '',
  time_last_click varchar(14) NOT NULL default '',
  last_page_url varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  host_address text NOT NULL,
  user_agent varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  KEY idx_ip_address_zen (ip_address),
  KEY idx_session_id_zen (session_id),
  KEY idx_customer_id_zen (customer_id),
  KEY idx_time_entry_zen (time_entry),
  KEY idx_time_last_click_zen (time_last_click),
  KEY idx_last_page_url_zen (last_page_url)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

NOTE: you will need to adjust that if you are using prefixes on your database table names ...

Hi,

I was getting this same error. I used the drop and recreate fix. It's seems to have worked.

Now I am getting another error, apparently in the banners tables.

1034 Incorrect key file for table 'b'; try to repair it
in:
[select b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions, sum(bh.banners_shown) as banners_shown from zen_banners b, zen_banners_history bh where b.status = 1 and b.banners_id = bh.banners_id group by b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions]

What do I do?

Thanks,

Derek

Let me clarify; I already performed REPAIR TABLE zen_banners_history;

cunomor:

Hi,

I was getting this same error. I used the drop and recreate fix. It's seems to have worked.

Now I am getting another error, apparently in the banners tables.

1034 Incorrect key file for table 'b'; try to repair it
in:
[select b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions, sum(bh.banners_shown) as banners_shown from zen_banners b, zen_banners_history bh where b.status = 1 and b.banners_id = bh.banners_id group by b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions]

What do I do?

Thanks,

Derek

cunomor:

Now I am getting another error, apparently in the banners tables.

1034 Incorrect key file for table 'b'; try to repair it
in:
[select b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions, sum(bh.banners_shown) as banners_shown from zen_banners b, zen_banners_history bh where b.status = 1 and b.banners_id = bh.banners_id group by b.banners_id, b.expires_date, b.expires_impressions]

I already performed REPAIR TABLE zen_banners_history;

"b" refers to the "banners" table.

It doesn't look like the error is reflecting the table name ...

Did you install an add-on or customize some code?

I have the same problem, but mine is for the sessions table:

1034 Incorrect key file for table 'sessions'; try to repair it

I can't get into EITHER the site OR the admin.

Could someone please provide the proper sql code to reconstruct this table via phpMyAdmin as suggested above??

Thank you very much, Tom

New update: I found 'Repair Table' in phpMyAdmin and ran this, it fixed the table.
Whew!!
Could this thread be moved or something to the FAQ or wiki section so other people know how to fix their tables like this??
It takes a few moments to find Repair in phpMyAdmin:

Open the database, use the login/pass that you use for ZC
Find the table(s) to fix
Click Operations
Scroll down, find repair table
Click repair table, hopefully this is all you need to do

Thank you, :) tom

I was a little hesitant to run SQL above since it was from 2003 but it worked like a charm. Thank you.

tlyczko has the correct solution for the problem, many thanks for this :)

can i just ask people did there error start appearing when they tried to do a dump of their database? or was it just a random error that occured?