How can I clear a transaction deadlock?

Question

Using 'show engine innodb status' I see that wordpress has two deadlocks. I'd like to clear these up but I don't see an active process for either of these cmds (IE something to 'kill' and hopefully force a rollback).

I can see thread ids, query ids, etc but nothing that I can use to stop either job.

Suggestions on how to resolve this?

EDIT: Here's the (relevant?) portion of the status:

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LATEST DETECTED DEADLOCK
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110327 10:54:14
*** (1) TRANSACTION:
TRANSACTION 9FBA099E, ACTIVE 0 sec, process no 14207, OS thread id 1228433728 starting index read
mysql tables in use 1, locked 1
LOCK WAIT 2 lock struct(s), heap size 376, 1 row lock(s)
MySQL thread id 12505112, query id 909492800 juno....edu 129....54 wordpress_user updating
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ''_site_transient_timeout_theme_roots''
*** (1) WAITING FOR THIS LOCK TO BE GRANTED:
RECORD LOCKS space id 4951009 page no 4 n bits 384 index `option_name` of table `wordpress_work`.`wp_options` trx id 9FBA099E lock_mode X waiting
Record lock, heap no 309 PHYSICAL RECORD: n_fields 2; compact format; info bits 32
0: len 30; hex 5f736974655f7472616e7369656e745f74696d656f75745f7468656d655f; asc _site_transient_timeout_theme_; (total 35 bytes);
1: len 8; hex 0000000000002b6d; asc       +m;;

*** (2) TRANSACTION:
TRANSACTION 9FBA0995, ACTIVE 0 sec, process no 14207, OS thread id 1230031168 starting index read
mysql tables in use 1, locked 1
3 lock struct(s), heap size 1248, 2 row lock(s)
MySQL thread id 12505095, query id 909492789 juno....edu 129.....54 wordpress_user updating
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ''_site_transient_timeout_theme_roots''
*** (2) HOLDS THE LOCK(S):
RECORD LOCKS space id 4951009 page no 4 n bits 384 index `option_name` of table `wordpress_work`.`wp_options` trx id 9FBA0995 lock_mode X locks rec but not gap
Record lock, heap no 309 PHYSICAL RECORD: n_fields 2; compact format; info bits 32
0: len 30; hex 5f736974655f7472616e7369656e745f74696d656f75745f7468656d655f; asc   _site_transient_timeout_theme_; (total 35 bytes);
 1: len 8; hex 0000000000002b6d; asc       +m;;

*** (2) WAITING FOR THIS LOCK TO BE GRANTED:
RECORD LOCKS space id 4951009 page no 4 n bits 384 index `option_name` of table     `wordpress_work`.`wp_options` trx id 9FBA0995 lock_mode X waiting
Record lock, heap no 309 PHYSICAL RECORD: n_fields 2; compact format; info bits 32
0: len 30; hex 5f736974655f7472616e7369656e745f74696d656f75745f7468656d655f; asc   _site_transient_timeout_theme_; (total 35 bytes);
1: len 8; hex 0000000000002b6d; asc       +m;;

*** WE ROLL BACK TRANSACTION (1)

Answer 1

Given some 'innodb status' output like this:

---TRANSACTION 0 0, not started, process no 1024, OS thread id 140386055603968
MySQL thread id 197, query id 771 localhost marc
show innodb status

you'd want to do

KILL QUERY 771

to kill one of the two queries that are deadlocked. That'll kill the query, but leave the connection open. if you want to kill the connection, then you'd do KILL 197.