Brad Bell

I don't know the specifics of your GHA or Docker file, but Craft _does_ require write access to that file: https://craftcms.com/docs/4.x/requirements.html#permissions The error indicates that that isn't happening right now,...

It’s definitely odd - I would be suspicious of a change from Craft 4.4.x to Craft 4.5.x because we changed some things on how Composer works internally starting with 4.5....

Going to go ahead and close this for lack of activity, but OP feel free to comment back and we can reopen as necessary.

I just tested Settings->Email using SMTP settings on a fresh Craft 4.5.2 install and I received the test email successfully. It did turn up a [UI bug](https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/13613), but I don't...

For posterity, it looks like the OP’s underlying issue was a blocklisted email server.

@rob-baker-ar Just to verify, your `matrixblocks ` table is already InnoDB and not MyISAM, correct?

Sounds a lot like this underlying MySQL bug that bit people on 8.0.29 https://xenforo.com/community/threads/psa-for-any-sites-on-mysql-8-0-29-data-corruption-incl-backups.207755/ It was "fixed" in MySQL 8.0.30, but only for freshly provisioned 8.0.30 instances: i.e. an 8.0.29...

@rob-baker-ar > Rebuild from above done Does that mean you rebuilt the database container/VM so that the new database was started from a fresh MySQL 8.0.30+ install and not an...

@rob-baker-ar > However, what's going through my mind is that the DB server is on a mainline version of a popular server OS I should not be the only one...

> Assuming it’s the same problem, I wouldn’t switch to MySQL 8 but a newer MariaDB version (10.7 up to 10.11) and see if the behavior changes. It’s been four...