Back Online Again!

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So, life has been busy this year and I neglected entirely my personal blog and website.

Upon returning, I discovered the server’s MySQL back end decided to kill my database in an upgrade. This site worked perfectly for almost 15 years on the same WordPress installation. But, it finally died tragically from an automated MySQL minor point upgrade:

2024-11-30T20:07:25.074296Z 4 [System] [MY-013381] [Server] Server upgrade from '80036' to '80037' started.
2024-11-30T20:12:47.266449Z 4 [ERROR] [MY-013178] [Server] Execution of server-side SQL statement '-- Copyright (c) 2015, 2024, Oracle and/or its affiliates. -- -- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -- the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. -- -- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the -- GNU General Public License for more details. -- -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA -- NOTE: This needs to be replicated within the sys_config_clean.inc file INSERT IGNORE INTO sys.sys_config (variable, value) VALUES     ('statement_truncate_len', 64),     ('statement_performance_analyzer.limit', 100),     ('statement_performance_analyzer.view', NULL),     ('diagnostics.allow_i_s_tables', 'OFF'),     ('diagnostics.include_raw', 'OFF'),     ('ps_thread_trx_info.max_length', 65535); ' failed with error code = 1436, error message = 'Thread stack overrun:  12656 bytes used of a 131072 byte stack, and 160000 bytes needed.  Use 'mysqld --thread_stack=#' to specify a bigger stack.'.
2024-11-30T20:12:47.328538Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-013380] [Server] Failed to upgrade server.
2024-11-30T20:12:47.341413Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting

Thanks Oracle! We get it you don’t want us to use MySQL.

I did try to fix it. I did try thread_stack=256K and many, many other solutions to solve the issue. After a couple of hours, I realized that the old site didn’t have a lot worth salvaging. I decided to trash it and start over.

Sometimes a good house cleaning is just the thing.

Honestly, it was time to upgrade the site and start over. So, I am, and here we are. More to come soon!