[support] Weird mysql error when creating new forum

[Shai Gluskin]

thanks so much, Mike, Earnie and Cog,

Yes I'm using D 5.7. There is lots of information here to get me started on
solving this problem. Thank you so much.

Shai

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
> wrote:
> >  > Drupallers,
> >  >
> >  > When trying to create a new forum, I get this error:
> >  >
> >  > > user warning: Duplicate entry '10' for key 1 query: INSERT INTO
> term_data
> >  > (tid, name, description, vid, weight) VALUES (10, 'Sellers Forum',
> '', 4, 0)
> >  > in /home/cmp/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172.
> >  >
> >  > Why is  Drupal trying to run a query to insert info data into the
> term_data
> >  > table?
> >
> >  Because forums are terms in the taxonomy vocabulary "Forums". And for
> >  some reason, Drupal attempted to create a term with ID=10 while there
> >  was already a term with this ID, instead of taking the next available
> >  ID. There could be many reasons. It could happen in a bizarre database
> >  setup or in a multisite with some shared and some separate tables in
> >  some cases.
> >
>
>
> A follow-up to add: I am guessing that you are running Drupal 5 or
> earlier, because this is very unlikely to happen in Drupal 6. If so,
> using phpMyAdmin go to the "sequences" table, select "Browse", and
> find the row "term_data_tid". If you see an ID=9 in that row, change
> it to 10. So the next term to be created will be 11 and you are
> unblocked.
>
>
> >
> >  > I'm adding the forum at: example.com/en/admin/content/forum/add/forum(the
> >  > "en" is for English, I'm using translation module).
> >  >
> >  > As usual, any help would be appreciated!
> >  >
> >  > Shai
> >  >
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> >
> >
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> >
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