WordPress randomly set itself up again?

  • Resolved kitsunesniper

    (@kitsunesniper)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve got a very strange issue I need help with.

    I was working on my blog last night, testing a new layout I was working on (basically a leaner CSS-based version of my old layout). I left everything working again, switched back to my old layout, everything was normal. Then I went to sleep.

    Now I wake up to find an email from my blog which says:

    Your new WordPress blog has been successfully set up at:

    https://www.foxhack.net

    You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:

    Username: admin
    Password: User already exists. Password inherited.

    There’s two issues here. One, there -was- no admin account; I disabled it and replaced it with another user account name. Two, I did not upgrade WordPress, I left everything -as is- last night and didn’t run any sort of automatic upgrade.

    Since this “Setup page” showed up I’m also afraid I’ll lose all my saved data. I haven’t run a backup in a few months (haven’t worked on the site since then). I went to the site to try to log in and I can’t do that, it keeps trying to force me to setup the site. And I don’t want it to.

    Does anyone know what’s going on?

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  • likely the wp_options table crashed in your database
    this would bring up the install screen as wordpress thinks it is being installed now
    someone accessing your website likely ran the installer

    you need to look at your database with phpmyadmin and see what is there now
    default tables with little info? or what?
    It is regrettable that folks don’t do regular back ups – then it wouldn’t be so bad when something happens like this

    Thread Starter kitsunesniper

    (@kitsunesniper)

    I contacted my webhost, and this is what he told me:

    Upon further investigation, it seems there’s some MySQL table corruption
    that happened as a result of an unclean shutdown of the SQL server.

    In your case, the errors are:

    kitsune_wp.wp_options
warning  : Table is marked as crashed
warning  : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
error    : Record at pos: 465820 is not remove-marked
error    : record delete-link-chain corrupted
error    : Corrupt

    I’m guessing the latter error is responsible for the problem you’re
    seeing. I’ll work on getting these tables repaired.

    So that’s what happened. He repaired the table and now the front page works; however, now every single post and page is giving me 404 errors, even though they’re in the database.

    So I guess I’ll have to reinstall WordPress and load a previous backup. I haven’t touched the site in quite a while other than to run plugin and WordPress updates, and to run that new site template I mentioned.

    Oh well. Live and learn. I appreciate your comment. ??

    no – just reset the permalinks
    admin – settings – permalinks

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