Title: WordPress engine crashes on database activity Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # WordPress engine crashes on database activity * [andreasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreasc/) * (@andreasc) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-engine-crashes-on-database-activity/) * Hi all, * As of yesterday, my business blog, lovingly created using wordpress has been down; any call to the blog engine (including admin.php) crashes the server process and creates a core dump on the blog directory. * I ‘ve tried to replicate the problem and it seems that as as of yesterday *something changed* on my hosting provider and crashes the blog engine on some kind of database activity. Specifically – I ‘ve tried clean installs of WordPress 2.1, 2.0.7. 2.0.1 and 1.5.2 and the blog engine crashes on step 2 of the installation process; it prints something like ‘creating tables for your database’ and then.. nothing. Thereafter, ALL calls to the database engine return a 500 Internal Server Error and generate a 2.5MB core dump file. * – If I drop or empty the tables from the database, I can run install.php again, but then on step 2 the story repeats. * I have searched high and low but can’t find what’s to blame. BTW, here’s some environment variables: Operating system Linux Kernel version 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp Machine Type i686 Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix) PERL version 5.8.7 Path to PERL/ usr/bin/perl Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail Installed Perl Modules Click to View PHP version 4.4.4 MySQL version 4.1.21-standard * This is my business blog which has been down 24+ hours and it’s becoming a nightmare.. Any help will be much appreciated ! (the hosts at Lunarpages.com seem unable to fix this..and will be losing me as a customer pretty soon). * Andreas VisionMobile Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-engine-crashes-on-database-activity/#post-511628) * If it’s crashing and generating a core dump only on the mysql calls, then I’d think that they upgraded PHP and forgot to upgrade the associated mysql libraries. But that’s a wild guess, I haven’t got enough information. * Tell them to fix it or you switch hosts. Simple enough. 🙂 * Thread Starter [andreasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreasc/) * (@andreasc) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-engine-crashes-on-database-activity/#post-511789) * Thanks Otto42 * Lunarpages mentioned they upgraded some components on my shared server. I also have another account with them (on which WP runs fine) and the differences are: * (WP-broken:) Kernel version 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp MySQL version 4.1.21-standard cPanel Build 10.9.0-RELEASE 118 * (WP working:) Kernel version 2.4.21-37.ELsmp MySQL version 4.0.25-standard cPanel Build 10.9.0-RELEASE 79 * The PHP version is 4.4.4 on both. Any idea of what might be the exact root of the problem ? * Thanks again, * Andreas * P.S. I ‘ll give them a few more hours and then switch hosts if I have to. After 3 phone calls and 4 emails, Lunarpages support is really disappointing. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘WordPress engine crashes on database activity’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Crashes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crashes/) * [engine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/engine/) * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [andreasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreasc/) * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-engine-crashes-on-database-activity/#post-511789) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics