Magento

Has anyone run into this error:
General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away

It seems to happen at random.  We will be clicking along on the front or backend and then the error occurs.  We cannot reproduce it.  The time between page views is a matter of just a few seconds.

Thoughts?

I’m getting the same error, but only on the “Search Terms” page.  Every time I go to the page, I get one of the following messages:

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query

or

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away

Anyone else?

I upgraded the server to PHP 5.2.5 to fix an error with the search box (specific to PHP 5.2.1, I believe), and that seemed to have fixed the Search Terms error.

The page came back with a legitimate message - not an error - stating that no search terms exist.  They were not being recorded until the search bug was fixed; now the tags are showing up correctly.