Plague server issue

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:30:51 +0200, MS (Matthias) wrote:

> DB Error: could not access jobs database. Reason: '(2006, 'MySQL server
> has gone away')' ----------------------------------------

>   File "/usr/share/plague/server/BuildMaster.py", line 322, in
> _start_new_jobs self._cursor.execute("INSERT INTO jobs (%s username,
> package," \ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py",
> line 163, in execute self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line
> 35, in defaulterrorhandler raise errorclass, errorvalue
> OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

That one could be due to the MySQL idle timeout
( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html )
and was fixed in Plague server 0.4.5.4 (2008) with a configurable
MySQL database ping interval, section [Database] ping_interval=XXX
in seconds.