On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, James Rome <jamesrome@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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I did clear all caches, and this is just an update for Drupal 7 after updating Views.
Caches cleared.
Error message
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).
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
Uncaught exception thrown in session handler.
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away in _drupal_session_write() (line 206 of /home/content/72/8469872/html/drupal/includes/session.inc).

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James A. Rome

URL: http://jamesrome.net