Distro Diag

[cynjut (Dave Burgess)]

I’d start with /var/log/messages and see if the hard drive is starting to through correctable errors. If so, back up the drive and replace it.

After that, I’d log into the console (or SSH) as ‘root’ and run the following to repair all of your databases:

GUI throws error when enabling firewall

Once you get MySQL running again, you need to make sure you repair all of the databases. Repair from the console as root with mysqlcheck --repair --all-databases IIRC, there’s also an ‘fwconsole repairall’ command, but I might have dreamed that.