[support] Error updating database

[Earnie Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, James Rome <jamesrome at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I run update.php, I get
> PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone
> away: SELECT filename, name, type, status, schema_version, weight FROM
> {system} WHERE type = :type; Array ( [:type] => module )
> insystem_get_files_database() (line 2188 of/home/content/72/8469872/html/drupal/modules/system/system.module).
>
> What does this mean?

Are you upgrading from D6 or an earlier version of D7?

I've seen this happen because of a poorly tuned DB.  Something caused
MySQL to not respond and close the DB connection.

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