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Hi all,

On one of my geeklog sites, I inadvertantly deleted the admin, as I was also set up as another user with root access. Then I noticed that when I clicked the main contact link for the site, there was a message saying "this user is not accepting mail" (or something like that) After reading the forum and mucking around a bit, I was able to figure out that the "contact" link sends email to the admin, or uid 2. Well, there's no more uid 2! So I went to the phpmyadmin panel (very scary, never been there before) and managed to find myself as a user with a uid of 5. I clicked on "edit", changed it to 2, and thought I was pretty good. Now when I try to log in, I get a sql error "An SQL error has occured. Please see error.log for details". I go to the error log, but what it says means nothing to me. Here's the text:
"You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1. SQL in question: DELETE FROM gl_sessions WHERE uid = "
Can anyone help? Thanks!

Well, as you just found out, that wasn't such a clever idea after all. If you only changed the uid in that one place, I'd suggest you change it back to 5. After that, you should be able to log in again.

The uid used by the "contact" link is actually hard-coded in the theme (header.thtml), so you can simply change it there.

bye, Dirk

Thank you very much Dirk. That worked perfectly.
I will stay away from the database until I've learned a bit more about it

Best regards,
Hans