Bug #41165 Purge reached the head of the history list
Submitted: 2 Dec 2008 1:34 Modified: 24 Sep 2009 9:00
Reporter: Francisco Editoria Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB storage engine Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1.15 OS:Windows (W2k)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: head, history, list

[2 Dec 2008 1:34] Francisco Editoria
Description:
What means this message? How can I fix it?

081201 18:22:47  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 351248! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com

How to repeat:
Every 2 minutes.
[2 Dec 2008 1:44] Francisco Editoria
more...

081201 15:11:38 [Note] E:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin\mysqld-nt: Normal shutdown

081201 15:11:40  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
081201 15:11:45  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 1407513918
081201 15:11:45 [Note] E:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin\mysqld-nt: Shutdown complete

081201 15:14:26  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 1407513918
E:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin\mysqld-nt: ready for connections.
Version: '4.1.15-nt'  socket: ''  port: 3306  Official MySQL binary
081201 15:14:27  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350820! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
081201 15:19:37  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350830! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
081201 15:21:36  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350835! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
081201 15:25:02  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350838! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
081201 15:27:18  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350844! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
081201 15:30:07  InnoDB: Warning: purge reached the head of the history list,
InnoDB: but its length is still reported as 350864! Make a detailed bug
InnoDB: report, and post it to bugs.mysql.com
[2 Dec 2008 7:04] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report.

This is some form of corruption.

> Version: '4.1.15-nt'  socket: ''  

But version 4.1.15 is very old. Please upgrade to current version 4.1.24, try with it and inform us if problem still exists.
[3 Jan 2009 0:00] Bugs System
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[24 Sep 2009 9:00] Susanne Ebrecht
This is a duplicate of bug #44923