# Error: Something bad happened - when trying to pull site to myKinsta

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-pull-site-to-mykinsta/5924
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-pull-site-to-mykinsta/5924 "2026-01-29T02:36:54Z")
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### Author: ![merineth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/merineth/32/3022_2.png) [@merineth](https://community.kinsta.com/u/merineth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-pull-site-to-mykinsta/5924/2 "2026-01-29T05:03:00Z")

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Hi @snow Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community!

Could you please send us the full DevKinsta’s **main.log** file via private message so we can take a closer look?  
You can get the main.log file by clicking on the “Reveal log file in File Manager” under the Help and Support page in DevKinsta.

Also, could you please try the alternative fix outlined in the link below?

> [@Error: Something bad happened - when trying to import site from myKinsta](https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-import-site-from-mykinsta/5661/15):
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> Hello @wpcreative-jwwaving_hand As discussed in our chat, I’m posting a complete step by step instructions, if needed in the future. @Seyed My colleague and I gave you the steps in the other threads, but I wanted to tag you here as well. Note: This applies to fixing the issues with site creation that are caused by database access error (in DevKinsta main.log, it’s → ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES) ). Part ONE - RESETING ‘root’ USER PASSW…

We will wait for your update. Thank you.

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