[mythtv-users] unable to drop mythconverg database

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Mar 12 20:03:52 UTC 2007


On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:59 PM, sarvin wrote:

> I seem to have inadvertently messed-up something in the mythconverg
> database. Since I regularly make backups I tried to drop mythconverg.
> For some reason when I run "drop database mythconverg;" mysql seems
> to hang and nothing happens. Is there a way for me to manually go in
> and remove the database?

Dropping is the manual way of doing it. :) Are you sure it's hung?  
Check top. It might just be taking a long time. I've had it take up  
to 15 minutes to drop a database with tons of little tables.


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