joomla 2.5 categories are crashing

Question

After my hosting company upgraded the server I have a really strange issue with the categories. Every second day a category crashes and when clicking the linked menu item it shows the following error. Can you help please? Thank you. ( http://myxolargos.gr )

error: 500

Incorrect key file for table '/tmp/#sql_1325_1.MYI'; try to repair it SQL=SELECT a.id, a.title, a.alias, a.title_alias, a.introtext, a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, a.created_by_alias, CASE WHEN a.modified = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.modified END as modified, a.modified_by, uam.name as modified_by_name,CASE WHEN a.publish_up = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END as publish_up,a.publish_down, a.images, a.urls, a.attribs, a.metadata, a.metakey, a.metadesc, a.access, a.hits, a.xreference, a.featured, LENGTH(a.fulltext) AS readmore,CASE WHEN badcats.id is not null THEN 0 ELSE a.state END AS state,c.title AS category_title, c.path AS category_route, c.access AS category_access, c.alias AS category_alias,CASE WHEN a.created_by_alias > ' ' THEN a.created_by_alias ELSE ua.name END AS author,ua.email AS author_email,( SELECT MAX(contact.id) AS id FROM myxolarg_contact_details AS contact WHERE contact.published = 1 AND contact.user_id = a.created_by) as contactid,parent.title as parent_title, parent.id as pare nt_id, parent.path as parent_route, parent.alias as parent_alias,ROUND(v.rating_sum / v.rating_count, 0) AS rating, v.rating_count as rating_count,c.published, CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN c.published ELSE 0 END AS parents_published FROM myxolarg_content AS a LEFT JOIN myxolarg_content_frontpage AS fp ON fp.content_id = a.id LEFT JOIN myxolarg_categories AS c ON c.id = a.catid LEFT JOIN myxolarg_users AS ua ON ua.id = a.created_by LEFT JOIN myxolarg_users AS uam ON uam.id = a.modified_by LEFT JOIN myxolarg_categories as parent ON parent.id = c.parent_id LEFT JOIN myxolarg_content_rating AS v ON a.id = v.content_id LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT cat.id as id FROM myxolarg_categories AS cat JOIN myxolarg_categories AS parent ON cat.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt WHERE parent.extension = 'com_content' AND parent.published != 1 GROUP BY cat.id ) AS badcats ON badcats.id = c.id WHERE a.access IN (1,1) AND c.access IN (1,1) AND CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN a.state ELSE 0 END = 1 AN D (a.catid = 109 OR a.catid IN ( SELECT sub.id FROM myxolarg_categories as sub INNER JOIN myxolarg_categories as this ON sub.lft > this.lft AND sub.rgt < this.rgt WHERE this.id = 109)) AND (a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_up <= '2014-02-12 21:58:27') AND (a.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_down >= '2014-02-12 21:58:27') ORDER BY c.lft, CASE WHEN a.publish_up = 0 THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END DESC , a.created LIMIT 0, 11

Answer 1

Check your hosting account has not run out of space.

How do you fix a MySQL "Incorrect key file" error when you can't repair the table? indicates that their solution was to ensure the tmp folder had enough space remaining to perform the repai.

If your hosting company has just changed something, then perhaps they have done something that would affect your tmp folder location for MYSQL.