MySQL Error dropping database errno 13 errno 17 errno 39

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I failed to drop a database    mysql  drop database mydb  ERROR 1010  HY000   Error dropping database  can t rmdir    mydb   errno  39    Directory db mydb exists in mysql tree but has no table      ls -l db mydb -rw-rw---- mysql mysql HIS STAT MYD -rw-rw---- mysql mysql HIS STAT MYI   What should I do

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In my case an additional file not belonging to the database was inside the database folder  Mysql found the folder not empty after dropping all tables which triggered the error  I remove the file and the drop database worked fine

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In my case it was due to  lower case table names  parameter   The error number 39 thrown out when I tried to drop the databases which consists upper case table names with lower case table names parameter is enabled   This is fixed by reverting back the lower case parameter changes to the previous state

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in linux   Just go to   var lib mysql  right click and  open as adminstrator   find the folder corresponding to your database name inside mysql folder and delete it  that s it  Database is dropped

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Simply go to  opt lampp var mysql  There You can find your database name   Open that folder  Remove if any files in it  Now come to phpmyadmin and drop that database

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This was how I solved it   mysql gt  DROP DATABASE mydatabase  ERROR 1010  HY000   Error dropping database  can t rmdir    mydatabase   errno  13  mysql gt     I went to delete this directory  C      UniServerZ core mysql data mydatabase   mysql gt  DROP DATABASE mydatabase  ERROR 1008  HY000   Can t drop database  mydatabase   database doesn t exist

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As for ERRORCODE 39  you can definately just delete the physical table files on the disk  the location depends on your OS distribution and setup  On Debian its typically under  var lib mysql database name  So do a   rm -f  var lib mysql  lt database name gt     And then drop the database from your tool of choice or using the command   DROP DATABASE  lt database name gt

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Quick Fix  If you just want to drop the database no matter what  but please first read the whole post  the error was given for a reason  and it might be important to know what the reason was    you can    find the datadir with the command SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name LIKE   datadir    stop the MySQL server  e g  service mysql stop or rcmysqld stop or similar on Linux  NET STOP  lt name of MYSQL service  often MYSQL57 or similar gt  or through SERVICES MSC on Windows  go to the datadir  this is where you should investigate  see below  remove the directory with the same name as the database start MySQL server again and connect to it execute a DROP DATABASE that s it    Reasons for Errno 13  MySQL has no write permission on the parent directory in which the mydb folder resides   Check it with  ls -la  path to data dir            see below on how to discover data dir ls -la  path to data dir mydb      On Linux  this can also happen if you mix and match MySQL and AppArmor SELinux packages  What happens is that AppArmor expects mysqld to have its data in  path to data dir  and allows full R W there  but MySQLd is from a different distribution or build  and it actually stores its data elsewhere  e g    var lib mysql5 data    as opposed to  var lib mysql      So what you see is that the directory has correct permissions and ownership and yet it still gives Errno 13 because apparmor selinux won t allow access to it   To verify  check the system log for security violations  manually inspect apparmor selinux configuration  and or impersonate the mysql user and try going to the base var directory  then cd incrementally until you re in the target directory  and run something like touch aardvark  amp  amp  rm aardvark  If permissions and ownership match  and yet the above yields an access error  chances are that it s a security framework issue       EASY FIX  considered harmful      I have happened upon an  easy fix  suggested on a  experts forum     not Stack Overflow  thank goodness   the same  fix  I sometimes   find for Web and FTP problems -- chown 777  PLEASE NEVER DO   THAT  For those who don t already know  777  or 775  or 666  isn t a   magic number that somehow MySQL programmers forgot to apply   themselves  or don t want you to know  Each digit has a   meaning  and 777 means  I hereby consent to everyone doing whatever they want with my   stuff  up to and including executing it as if it were a binary or shell   script   By doing this  and chances are you won t be allowed to do   this on a sanely configured system           you risk several security conscious programs to refuse to function anymore  e g  if you do that to your SSH keys  goodbye SSH   connections  etc   since they realize they re now in a insecure context    you allow literally everyone with any level of access whatsoever to the system to read and write your data  whether MySQL allows it or   not  unbeknownst to MySQL itself - i e  it becomes possible to   silently corrupt whole databases    the above might sometimes be done  in exceedingly dire straits  by desperate and knowledgeable people  to gain access again to an otherwise   inaccessible screwed MySQL installation  i e  even mysqladmin no longer grants   local access   and will be immediately undone as soon as   things get back to normal - it s not a permanent change  not even   then  And it s not a fix to  one weird trick to be able to drop my DB            needless to say  it s almost never the real fix to any Web or FTP problems either  The fix to  Of late  the wife s keys fail to open the front door and she can t enter our home  is  check the keys or have the lock repaired or replaced   the admittedly much quicker chown 777 is  Just leave the front door wide open  Easy peasy  What s the worst that might happen        Reasons for Errno 39  This code means  directory not empty   The directory contains some hidden files MySQL knows nothing about  For non-hidden files  see Errno 17  The solution is the same   Reasons for Errno 17  This code means  file exists   The directory contains some MySQL file that MySQL doesn t feel about deleting  Such files could have been created by a SELECT     INTO OUTFILE  filename   command where filename had no path  In this case  the MySQL process creates them in its current working directory  which  tested on MySQL 5 6 on OpenSuSE 12 3  is the data directory of the database  e g   var lib mysql data nameofdatabase   Reproducibility   Welcome to the MySQL monitor   Commands end with   or  g  Your MySQL connection id is 1676 Server version  5 6 12-log openSUSE package   snip        mysql gt  CREATE DATABASE pippo  Query OK  1 row affected  0 00 sec   mysql gt  USE pippo  Database changed mysql gt  SELECT version   INTO OUTFILE  test   Query OK  1 row affected  0 00 sec   mysql gt  DROP DATABASE pippo  ERROR 1010  HY000   Error dropping database  can t rmdir    pippo    errno  17   -- now from another console I delete the  test  file  without closing this connection -- and just retry  Now it works   mysql gt  DROP DATABASE pippo  Query OK  0 rows affected  0 00 sec    Move the file s  outside  or delete if not needed  and retry  Also  determine why they were created in the first place - it could point to a bug in some application  Or worse  see below     UPDATE  Error 17 as exploit flag  This happened on a Linux system with Wordpress installed  Unfortunately the customer was under time constraints and I could neither image the disk or do a real forensics round - I reinstalled the whole machine and Wordpress got updated in the process  so I can only say that I m almost certain they did it through this plugin   Symptoms  the mysql data directory contained three files with extension PHP  Wait  what    -- and inside the files there was a bulk of base64 code which was passed to base64 decode  gzuncompress and  eval    2   Aha  Of course these were only the first attempts  the unsuccessful ones  The site had been well and truly pwn3d   So if you find a file in your mysql data dir that s causing an Error 17  check it with file utility or scan it with an antivirus  Or visually inspect its contents  Do not assume it s there for some innocuous mistake    Needless to say  to visually inspect the file  never double click it    The victim in this case  he had some friend  do the maintenance   would never have guessed he d been hacked until a maintenance update whatever script ran a DROP DATABASE  do not ask me why - I m not sure even I want to know  and got an error  From the CPU load and the syslog messages  I m fairly positive that the host had become a spam farm   Yet another Error 17  If you rsync or copy between two MySQL installations of the same version but different platform or file systems such as Linux or Windows  which is discouraged  and risky  but many do it nonetheless   and specifically with different case sensitivity settings  you can accidentally end up with two versions of the same file  either data  index  or metadata   say Customers myi and Customer MYI  MySQL uses one of them and knows nothing about the other  which could be out of date and lead to a disastrous sync   When dropping the database  which also happens in many a mysqldump           mysql backup schemes  the DROP will fail because that extra file  or those extra files  exists  If this happens  you should be able to recognize the obsolete file s  that need manual deletion from the file time  or from the fact that their case scheme is different from the majority of the other tables   Finding the data-dir  In general  you can find the data directory by inspecting the my cnf file   etc my cnf   etc sysconfig my cnf   etc mysql my cnf on Linux  my ini in the MySQL program files directory in Windows   under the  mysqld  heading  as datadir   Alternatively you can ask it to MySQL itself   mysql gt  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name LIKE   datadir     --------------- -----------------    Variable name   Value              --------------- -----------------    datadir          var lib mysql     --------------- -----------------  1 row in set  0 00 sec

[mysql] MySQL: Error dropping database (errno 13; errno 17; errno 39)

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