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Bug 1274 - deadlock error on edit save


Summary:	deadlock error on edit save

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Product:	Wikimedia
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High major with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Duplicates:	1296 5166 5824 5876 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2005-01-06 22:05 UTC by Dan Keshet (English Wikipedia)
Modified:	2008-12-16 02:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Description Dan Keshet (English Wikipedia) 2005-01-06 22:05:16 UTC

I was editing List of US Supreme Court Cases on en when I got this error:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the
software. The last attempted database query was:

    SELECT cur_id,cur_namespace,cur_title FROM `cur`,`links` WHERE cur_id=l_to
AND l_from=102337 FOR UPDATE

from within function "LinkCache::preFill". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock
found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.1)".

Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2005-01-29 07:17:17 UTC

*** Bug 1296 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Tim Starling 2005-03-09 04:44:38 UTC

This can be fixed at any time by setting $wgDumbLinkUpdates = true. This
elimates any chance of a deadlock on the heavily-updated link table.
Unfortunately (according to JamesDay) that causes the slaves to choke and die. A
strategy of reducing lock time may be a better approach, and a few such tweaks
have been made. Deadlocks should be much less frequent than they once were.

As far as I'm concerned, a friendlier error message allowing the user to
resubmit their edit easily would close this bug.

Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2005-03-09 06:55:15 UTC

Couldn't we restart the transaction automatically in this case, by at some level re-callling a function?

Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2006-01-22 04:21:55 UTC

Restored from flood attack.

Comment 5 Brion Vibber 2006-05-04 08:12:13 UTC

*** Bug 5824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Brion Vibber 2006-05-09 00:12:56 UTC

*** Bug 5166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Brion Vibber 2006-05-09 00:13:01 UTC

*** Bug 5876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 a.steffan 2007-11-14 11:29:23 UTC

The same error appeared on your mediawiki today.
Mediawiki 1.11.0
Mysql 5.0.22
PHP 5.1.2 (cgi-fcgi)

The error message:

In the function "MediaWikiBagOStuff::_doinsert"
MySQL returned the error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction (localhost)"

Comment 9 Dan Barrett 2008-08-21 14:05:31 UTC

I got this error today on 1.13.0 on Windows 2003 Server when trying to view a page, not edit it. --~~~~

Comment 10 Aaron Schulz 2008-09-11 21:31:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #9)
> I got this error today on 1.13.0 on Windows 2003 Server when trying to view a
> page, not edit it. --~~~~
> 

These tables don't exist anymore, like the query

Comment 11 Chad H. 2008-12-16 02:06:21 UTC

Closing as WORKSFORME. As Aaron said, 'cur' doesn't exist anymore. Nor does this query, or even the method LinkCache::preFill. Any deadlock errors on save would be unrelated to this.

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