[Typo3-UG Australia] Breaking DB

[Roger Bunyan]

Hi Bernie,

i would say you have a problem with your install - disable imagemagic 
and gdlib and see if things improve
could also be a problem with windows corrupting the db

you might be better doing a search on the  install list

roger

Bernie wrote:

> G'day People !
>
> New to Typo3 - I d/l it a few weeks back and have taken a cursory sift 
> through much of the documentation and played with the example site 
> several times. I'm VERY impressed ! Powerful system and definately the 
> sort of thing I'm looking for !
>
> However - I keep hitting a fundamental snag in Typo. I keep breaking 
> the Database ! :( (4th time now)
>
> No specific reason, and certainly nothing techincal like manually 
> coding elements. But I get errors like "can't find GIF" and "Cache not 
> found" or more specifically I get this one:
>
> Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL 
> result resource in C:\apache\htdocs\VRgrafix\t3lib\class.t3lib_db.php 
> on line 689
>
> resulting in a borken site. This often necessitates I reinstall Typo - 
> as no matter how much I try to "fix" the DB with the supplied tools - 
> it inevitably does nothing :(( I've obviously checked the line in 
> question - but means little to me (I'm no programmer) The more common 
> error I seem to get is the cache (Why does it need a cache of the 
> pages?) does not seem to accurately mirror the "real" pages. Requiring 
> mysql manual fixing of the table.
>
> I've hardly put Typo3 into a "real world" scenario yet - but amongst 
> my menial playing with templates and changing colours seems to break 
> the system so easily - should one wonder what it would be like with a 
> live website ?? Is this just me - am I doing something fundamentally 
> wrong or should one treat Typo with a gentle, change one thing at a 
> time and backup religiously approach ?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Bernie den Hertog
> VRgrafix
> www.vrgrafix.com.au
>
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