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Thought readers might be interested to know that the plugin BDRSS seems to have been the culprit. SpamKarma also seems messed up. The associated fields of the DB are broken.

Tech support at bluehost was mystified. they tried everything they could think of, spent hours on the phone with me, and ultimately had to kick it up to the server admins.

Anyway, things seem to be working at least well enough to fix the problem now. Beware of plugins when upgrading!

Sorry for the double-post, moshu. This is the firs time I’ve _ever_ got a reply on a support forum, so I thought you had to really be annoying to get heard. Apologies. I’m following up with the host (bluehost, since WP recommended it). They’re being very nice and helpful, but haven’t solved the problem yet.

Having the same problem. Except that the host says the DB server is working fine.

Wonder if this is a related problem. I’ve had WP set up for ages. Everything worked fine. Until today, when I started getting this same error message. Wp-config hasn’t changed. there is no .htaccess set for the directory, and the one at the root directory is empty. The hosting company (bluehost, since wp recommended it) has no idea what’s happening. They tried resyncing the DB a couple times, which worked for a little while, but the problem started again soon after.

I updated WP to the latest edition and went into the server to kill all processes, but I’m still getting this error. Anyone have any idea what’s up?