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.

-- 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 ) in/system_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).