tags 306409 + confirmed woody
thanks

Hello Mike

On 2005-04-26 Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> After upgrading this package from security.debian.org, the delete
> operation (at least) has broken. I have a cron job which deletes all
> data in certain tables, and repopulates them from an external data
> source. This is achieved by simply doing "delete from tbl_foo", and this
> operation now fails with the following error.
> 
> mysql> delete from tbl_Country;
> ERROR 1: Can't create/write to file './journals/tbl_Country.ISM'
> (Errcode: 17)

The bug is reproducible. As a quick workaround I can suggest you to
upgrade your tables to the MySQL format (which is better and the default
anyway) using "ALTER TABLE xyz TYPE=MyISAM;".

> Tagged as important as a security update has effectively caused a severe
> breakage in the operation of the database for me, and I'm still trying
> to figure out what's changed. There have been no other changes to system
> setup or configuration.

I will browse through the changesets in the next days to see if there's a
but in them.

bye,

-christian-

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