Mamihlapinatapai

Mamihlapinatapai

The word Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It refers to “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves.” It is also cited in books and articles on game theory associated with the volunteer’s dilemma.

Fixing MySQL error “Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted”

Fixing MySQL error “Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted”

After a recent upgrade of some of my CentOS 6.3 servers to MySQL 5.5 from the Remi repository, I started noticing errors like this one in the logs, especially during backups:

MySQL: SHOW FUNCTION STATUS WHERE Db = ‘name’: Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted

A quick search revealed that this is do to ‘mysqld_upgrade’ script not being run automatically against the existing database.  A quick and simple solution is to just run the script manually.  Of course, a full database backup is recommended before doing so.  Mine worked just fine though.