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all arabic characters turns into question mark!!!

Hello Gurus i am sure i will find my answer here, i am running an arabic site on drupal www.2knowmyself.com/arabic

  • suddenly and out of no reason all links turn into question marks and so whenever i click on anything i get a page not found error
  • this is not a local display issue because whenever the problem happens i browse the site from other computers and still find the question marks!!
  • the only soloution that worked for me was restoring the database from a backup but few hours later the same problem happened again and i had to restore the database from backup once again!!

any help would be really appreciated

linuxawy's picture

the site is working fine now

can you please tell me what you were trying to do when this happened? changing something in the settings, installing a new module, ... etc??

do you have a dump of the db when it has a problem? may be you should make a test site with this db and try to check it more..


Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy

hey ahmed seems that this is

hey ahmed seems that this is side effect of a certain error that keeps happening once every few minutes, (see below ), sometimes the letters turns into question marks, sometimes the default theme is restored, sometimes the default loogo is restored!!

i do nothing, i leave home and come back to find the log filled with such messages then i find weird things happened at the site

Warning: Server shutdown in progress query: SELECT sid FROM sessions WHERE sid = '8f74da0c5da43c25416b2775e4d5ad9b' in /nfs/c02/h05/mnt/17722/domains/2knowmyself.com/html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172

Warning: Lost connection to MySQL server during query query: SELECT u.* FROM users u WHERE u.uid = 0 in /nfs/c02/h05/mnt/17722/domains/2knowmyself.com/html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172

seems that also the problems

seems that also the problems happen right after this error:

Lost connection to MySQL server during query query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire FROM cache_menu WHERE cid = '0:ar' في /nfs/c02/h05/mnt/17722/domains/2knowmyself.com/html/arabic/includes/database.mysql.inc في السطر 172

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