MYSQL error when adding forum

[Sacrifice]

Whenever we try adding a forum, there's a MYSQL error with an incredibly large forumid. [65535]

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO forum
(forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayo
rder,parentid,
parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,daysprun
e,newpostemail,newthreademail,
moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allo
wsmilies,allowicons,
styleoverride,allowratings,storereply,storethread,
countposts,moderateattach,onoffimage, collapsed)
VALUES
(NULL,'1','test','test','1','1','-1',
'','1','1','30','','',
'0','0','1','1','1','1',
'0','1','1','0', '','','1','0')
mysql error: Duplicate entry '65535' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Saturday 19th of March 2005 07:39:03 PM
Script: http://www.theorangecounty.net/foru...admin/forum.php
Referer: http://www.theorangecounty.net/foru...php?action=add& 

Does anyone know how to reset it back to normal?

[Steve Machol]

You've maxed out your available forumid numbers - 65535. Been busy?

To fix this you need to manually change the forumid field type in the forum table from smallint(5) to int(10). You can do this in phpMyAdmin.

Also your version of vB has some significant security holes. I strongly recommend that you upgrade to at least 2.3.6 as soon as possible.

[Sacrifice]

The problem is that we should only have 118 forums ever created. I have no idea why it leaped from 118 - 36553.

I tried changing it to BIGINT, then tried making a new forum. There was the same MYSQL error. After trying to change the BIGINT back to a SMALLINT, I get this error from PHPMYADMIN:

Error

SQL-query :  

ALTER TABLE `forum` CHANGE `forumid` `forumid` SMALLINT( 5 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT 

MySQL said: 


Duplicate entry '65535' for key 1 

[Steve Machol]

As I said you need to change this field to INT(10).

[Sacrifice]

Okay, I still get this error, instead of forwarding me to the modifying forums page. But, it does add the forum.

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO access (userid,forumid,accessmask) VALUES ('17','65540',1)
mysql error: Duplicate entry '17-65535' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Sunday 20th of March 2005 04:49:52 PM
Script: http://www.theorangecounty.net/forum/forum/admin/forum.php
Referer: http://www.theorangecounty.net/forum/admin/forum.php?action=add&parentid=116 

Is there anyway I can stop the MYSQL query from coming?

[Steve Machol]

This means you didn't change this field. Fill out a support ticket at:

http://www.vbulletin.com/members/mem...ontactform.php

Be sure to include the login info to your Admin CP, phpMyAdmin and FTP. Please also include a complete description of the problem.

[Sacrifice]

Nevermind! I got it fixed! Thanks for all your support!

[Sacrifice]

There's something seriously wrong with our DB.

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO access (userid,forumid,accessmask) VALUES ('303','65553',1)
mysql error: Duplicate entry '303-65535' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Saturday 16th of April 2005 06:42:11 PM
Script: http://www.theorangecounty.net/forum/forum/admin/forum.php
Referer: http://www.theorangecounty.net/forum/admin/forum.php?s=&action=edit&forumid=65553 

We get this error when trying to private a forum. Do you think you guys can help out?

[Steve Machol]

Woah! This means you have gone throough 65535 forumids. Any idea how you were able to do this?

There is no easy fix for this. What you need to do is edit every table with a forumid field and change this field from smallint(5) to int(10).

[Sacrifice]

I honestly have no idea. :\ We got up to 110 then it suddenly went to an enourmous number. It obviously didn't do it by itself, so someone must have messed with it, yet, I've asked my staff members and they don't know what happened, I'm not looking to point any fingers, I just want it not to effect the members.

Anyways, what do you mean change every forum to INT? Can you evaluate a bit more?

I really hope it works, we really need to this fixed if we want to keep up activity.

[Steve Machol]

Did you install any hacks? Something had to have changed to jump the forumid number like this.

As I said, you will need to manually edit the forumid field in every table it appears in. You can use phpMyAdmin to do this.

[Sacrifice]

I just noticed.

Through PHPmyadmin i went to forum --> operations and found auto_increment when i scrolled down.

I wanted to try something. At first it was 65565, then I added a forum, and the forum ID ended up 65565, then I checked auto_increment again, and it was 65566. I think this is why the forum ids are jumping to ridiculous numbers. Could I be correct?

[Steve Machol]

I pointed this out already in post #9. You are going to need to follow my suggestion in that post.