Title: Cannot COMMENT – Lock wait timeout Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Cannot COMMENT – Lock wait timeout * [picos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picos/) * (@picos) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-comment-lock-wait-timeout/) * My blog is working perfectly for the past year. Today it started with this behaviour… It doesn’t let me insert comments. It bangs with the following error: * WordPress database error: [Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction] DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE DATE_SUB(‘2007-01-22 14:38:52’, INTERVAL 15 DAY) > comment_date_gmt AND comment_approved = ‘spam’ * WordPress database error: [Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction] INSERT INTO wp_comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_author_IP, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content, comment_approved, comment_agent, comment_type, comment_parent, user_id) VALUES(‘ 329’, ‘picos’, ‘blog@estounanet.com’, ‘[http://www.estounanet.com’](http://www.estounanet.com’);,‘ 81.246.19.230’, ‘2007-01-22 07:39:23’, ‘2007-01-22 14:39:23’, ‘Test’, ‘1’, ‘Mozilla/ 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)’, ”, ‘0’, ‘ 1’) * I have AKISMET and even in the management area, when i start to delete the spam, it bangs again with the following error: * WordPress database error: [Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction] DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘spam’ AND ‘2007-01-22 14:25: 24’ > comment_date_gmt * Any suggestion? Thank yous Luís MOnteiro The topic ‘Cannot COMMENT – Lock wait timeout’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * [lock](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lock/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [picos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picos/) * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-comment-lock-wait-timeout/) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics