Hello,
We're having some seemingly random but persistent errors on our wiki, and wonder if this has been experienced by anyone else, and maybe if there's a fix.
Our database is being hosted on a MySQL server, and we are using LDAP rather than basic authentication.
We often get errors that look like the following:
Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM `pages`
These often arise when clicking on the Home tab, or clicking the browser's back button to get back to the Home tab. They are sometimes exhibiting themselves as 500 Internal Server Errors. They don't always pertain to the same database field, and they don't appear all the time, just sporadically.
I've attached the last number of lines from the log file to show a typical error, and the backtrace from the auto-generated email is below.
Is this purely a database issue? Any help or advice is appreciated!
Matt Austin
<<500error.txt>>
Error report from Wed May 18 10:07:56 +0000 2011
Message Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM `pages`
Location http://10.35.1.105:3005/portal/home
Action home
Controller portal
Query
Method GET
SSL false
Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Backtrace
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:150:in `log'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:281:in `execute'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:411:in `columns'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1080:in `columns'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1088:in `columns_hash'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:63:in `define_attribute_methods'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:187:in `method_missing'
/app/models/wiki_page.rb:153:in `current_version'
/app/models/site.rb:82:in `templates'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `each'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `send'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `method_missing'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:162:in `method_missing'
/app/models/site.rb:81:in `templates'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb:28:in `returning'
/app/models/site.rb:80:in `templates'
/app/controllers/portal_controller.rb:33:in `home'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1158:in `send'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1158:in `perform_action_without_filters'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:697:in `call_filters'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:689:in `perform_action_without_benchmark'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:199:in `perform_action_without_caching'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:678:in `perform_action'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:33:in `cache'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:8:in `cache'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:677:in `perform_action'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:524:in `send'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:524:in `process_without_filters'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:685:in `process_without_session_management_support'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:123:in `process'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:388:in `process'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:171:in `handle_request'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:115:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:126:in `dispatch_cgi'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:9:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:112:in `handle_dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:78:in `service'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:37:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:62:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:66
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
script/server:3
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Matthew Austin - Consultant
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