Title: Database access error – KILL process
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database access error – KILL process

 *  [SMercer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smercer/)
 * (@smercer)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-access-error-kill-process/)
 * Hello
    We have been running WP1.5 for many months without a problem. We have 
   not altered ANY WP files. The wp_comments table in the database appeared to get
   corrupted a couple of days ago and my programmer cleared that table (we did lose
   the comments data) but everything else worked OK – for a few minutes. After that
   we obtained the ‘Error establishing a database connection’ message. I observed
   a KILL process on the database using Plesk. I have no idea how this appeared 
   but I cannot removed it. My web host claims that they are unable to removed it
   either. They assert the following “phpMyAdmin was unable to kill thread 391. 
   It probably has already been closed This seems like a common issue, but nobody
   has a resolution.” and suggest deleting the entire database and building a new
   one.
 * Does this seem reasonable? Has anyone encoutered this before?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-access-error-kill-process/#post-435073)
 * I doubt your going to find any answer to this question since 1.5 was obsoleted
   some time ago. If you have a host that cannot kill a mysql proccess than you 
   have a host that doesnt know how to `shutdown -r`. Additionally if its showing
   in `proc`, its not killed, and thats a simple way to check.
 * Rather than mull over what might caused this, I would send your host to a “how
   to manage *nix class” and take the well-spent time that theyre in class to upgrade
   your wordpress to 2.0.4.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-access-error-kill-process/#post-435073)
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