Wordpress site is down and won't come back up

August 14, 2014 1.8k views
farooqyousuf1
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My Wordpress site has gone down and will not reboot. The error is:

Error establishing a database connection

I've tried restarting from the console and UI, but no luck. I have a swap as well.

This isn't the first time this has happened either, although it happened after a long time...

Any permanent solutions to this recurring and annoying problem???

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farooqyousuf1 August 14, 2014

Apache logs:

root@farooqyousuf:~# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Thu Aug 14 01:04:53 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Aug 14 01:05:03 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug 14 01:10:13 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Aug 14 01:10:29 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug 14 03:26:50 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Aug 14 03:27:01 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug 14 03:29:25 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Aug 14 03:29:33 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug 14 03:48:11 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Aug 14 03:48:28 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
root@farooqyousuf:~# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

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  • farooqyousuf1 August 14, 2014

    I did 'less /var/log/mysql/error.log' and got this:

    140814 1:10:13 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown

    140814 1:10:13 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
    140814 1:10:13 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
    140814 1:10:13 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595705
    140814 1:10:13 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

    140814 1:10:30 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
    140814 1:10:30 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
    140814 1:10:30 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
    140814 1:10:31 InnoDB: 5.5.35 started; log sequence number 1595705
    140814 1:10:31 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '127.0.0.1'; port: 3306
    140814 1:10:31 [Note] - '127.0.0.1' resolves to '127.0.0.1';
    140814 1:10:31 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '127.0.0.1'.
    140814 1:10:31 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
    140814 1:10:31 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
    Version: '5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 (Ubuntu)

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