Poured a cup of coffee this morning and just about choked when I found my CB site was down. This error I haven't seen before.

Here's the error:

[code:1]DB function failed with error number 145
Table './xxxx_xxxx/jos_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=SELECT session_id FROM jos_session WHERE session_id = 'f1bf0cd9e344fea33cec2a3fecb29722'
SQL =

SELECT session_id
FROM jos_session
WHERE session_id = 'f1bf0cd9e344fea33cec2a3fecb29722'[/code:1]

I went into phpmyadmin and couldn't even get into that table. I didn't see anything which said "repair" or "rebuild" in phpmyadmin. I found someone who had the same problem on forum.joomla.org who said they just emptied the table and that fixed it.

I backed up my db, then emptied jos_session and that fixed it. My guess is all that did was erase all the session cookies.

What is the cause of this problem?

Could this be related to the infamous cookies expired issue?

This site is on Jommla 1.0.15 and CB 1.1. I'm not going to upgrade this to cb 1.2 until it is officially released and nant's gallery is released with it. I need that functionality.