MySQL has gone away

[Kevin Martin]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:17:13 +0200, Boris Glawe wrote:
>
>   
>>> Is there anything of interest in the mysqld.log file?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> This could be interesting, though I don't know how to interprete these 
>> messages....
>>
>> 080916 21:28:02 [Warning] Aborted connection 2 to db: 'unconnected' 
>> user: 'UNKNOWN_MYSQL_US' host: 'localhost' (init_connect command failed)
>> 080916 21:28:02 [Warning] You have an error in your SQL syntax; check 
>> the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right 
>> syntax to use near '‘SET NAMES utf8′' at line 1
>>     
>
> Fix your broken changes in /etc/my.cnf
>
>   
yea, I agree.  It appears that you must have setup the server with one
my.cnf and then are running it after making changes to the my.cnf that
aren't correct. 

Kevin