PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] -> Website frequently does not load in browser

By SilverSunrise1981 on 29 Jun 2012 at 11:21 UTC

Dear forum members,

I have the following problem:

since the upgrade of my website http://www.magicofword.com from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 7.x I frequently get the following error message when trying to access the website via my browser:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL
server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /is/htdocs/wp1048090_8JCEI180MP/drupal7/
includes/lock.inc).

It seems like the connection to the database server is lost. After a while, without doing anything, the website does load again. The problem really is annoying as the visitors expect a reliable and stable website. Further, may the search engine not find my website with a detrimental effect to the SE rankings.

First, I have checked the access information in the file /drupal7/sites/default/settings.php. They are correct. However, sometimes I cannot login to my database through PHPMyAdmin with these login details. Sometimes, it takes a long time for the connection to establish. This is unusual.

I have already got in touch with my hosting company. According to them, there is no unusal activity and everything is deemed to work as it should.

Is there the possibility that the website generates too many database requests at a time and causes the connection to crash?

What can I do to solve the issue?

Thanks a lot for your feedback!! It is much appreciated.

Comments

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VM commented 29 June 2012 at 13:04

Is there the possibility that the website generates too many database requests at a time and causes the connection to crash?

It's possible that you are hitting a ceiling the host has set. have you inspected the site with the devel.module?

Hi Vm, thanks a lot for your

SilverSunrise1981 commented 30 June 2012 at 22:52

Hi Vm,

thanks a lot for your reply.

Could you please tell me in short how to use the devel module properly? I have no experience with it.

same problem

lantha commented 3 March 2013 at 06:29

I am having the same problem but with a fresh installation of Drupal 7. The connection is lost for some time and then it is restored again. What can be done to remove this problem permanently. Also, how do i check if the database connection has hit the ceiling or how many database connections can Drupal do for a particular hosting?

Same problem

Sjursei commented 15 March 2013 at 14:11

This is one of the things that bothers me with Drupal. I can always find someone else having the same problem, but never a solution.

I have a (relatively) fresh install of drupal 7, and I get this error frequently. There is almost no activity on the site, as it is still in development, so I am pretty sure that my host is not the problem.

the only solution I have found so far is to reboot my hosting server, which I am getting pretty tired of.

Hope that someone with more insight than me can give an answer as to why this keeps happening, and how to fix it.

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VM commented 15 March 2013 at 16:26

when there aren't any solutions given it tends to be due to a lack of enough information to debug the issue.

how many queries when it dies?
any pattern to what kind of pages are being viewed when the DB dies, (views, panels, page with multiple blocks, ...)?
Have you employed devel to check slow queries? duplicate queries?

Other helpful information would be version of PHP, version of MySQL.

Obviously the issue isn't so widespread that it's affecting a large percentage of drupal users. Thus try not to be so quick to rule out the host, the hardware, the software (beyond Drupal) or the config of any of aforementioned just because you are the only user or there aren't many users.

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Sjursei commented 18 March 2013 at 11:57

Thank you for your reply.
I was a little frustrated when I wrote the post, things are going much better now.

I run Drupal 7.21 on Amazon EC2.
Server version: Apache/2.2.23 (Unix)
Server version: 5.5.29 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
PHP Version 5.3.20

As for now the error seems to happen at random, but I will try to reproduce it and gain a better understanding of what makes the DB die.

Same scenario

Sparkster commented 3 April 2013 at 12:19

I seem to be having exactly the same issue and have the same setup as yourself.

Drupal 7.21 on Amazon EC2. [Micro instance]
Server version: Apache/2.2.23 (Unix)
Server version: 5.5.29 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
PHP Version 5.3.20

There seems to be quite a few people having this issue with no clear solution, or the solution which is posed relates to restart mysql which only seems to be a temporary fix.

Eager to find out what you've tried and if you've found a solution yet.

Server Problem?

amMain2 commented 3 July 2013 at 22:17

i am using 1&1 Dual Unlimited, well in Germany. threr are 13 sites with databases in 13 languages. today the english one is crushed,
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1040] Too many connections in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /homepages/.../htdocs/english/includes/lock.inc).

but after a while it is working again. no idea why.

Same issue

logicbug commented 17 February 2014 at 00:34

I've had the same issue. The problem IS NOT DRUPAL! There just isn't enough memory with the LAMP stack and MySQL Crashes. Creating a swap file fixed the problem for me as per http://waynesimmerson.ca/Article/how-create-swap-file-ubuntu-1204

Thanks!!

gingerfrog commented 3 September 2014 at 14:00

I was running into the same issue trying to get too much out of a low spec cloud host, MYSQL just kept crashing, needing restarts of both httpd and mysqld services to get site working.

New swap file has fixed it for me.

This just happened to me

zooter626 commented 25 September 2013 at 18:37

On a shared hosting service i got this message this morning:

Error

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
Error messagePDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /home/.../public_html/includes/lock.inc).

i contacted my hosting provider and was redirected to this alert:

"We are currently facing issues with the MySQL service on this server. We are working to identify the issue relating to the service.

Services affected include the MySQL at this time. Services not affected include Httpd, IMAP/POP, SSH and FTP.

During this outage, access to MySQL based websites will be slow or unavailable. All other services are online and available. We apologize for this inconvenience and we will continue providing updates as soon as possible."

so, in this case there was nothing i could do about it. :-(

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to ...

edward0 commented 14 November 2013 at 04:10

#I just finished an Drupal 7.23 clean install on a Debian Wheezy machine with SELinux in enforcing mode.
#When I'm going to the browser address htt://myownhost I get ...

ERROR - The website encounter an unexpected error. Please try again later.
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (13) in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /var/www/includes/lock.inc).

#if I run setenforce 0 the problem dissapears. So I run:
ausearch -m avc -ts recent
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time->Wed Nov 13 08:46:00 2013
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1384361160.145:34): arch=40000003 syscall=102 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=bfe38ab0 a2=b5973558 a3=0 items=0 ppid=2211 pid=2397 auid=4294967295 uid=33 gid=33 euid=33 suid=33 fsuid=33 egid=33 sgid=33 fsgid=33 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="apache2" exe="/usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2" subj=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1384361160.145:34): avc: denied { write } for pid=2397 comm="apache2" name="mysqld.sock" dev=tmpfs ino=8211 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 tclass=sock_file
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#I see that the source context is:
matchpathcon /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2
/usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 system_u:object_r:httpd_exec_t:SystemLow

#but according to the message it should be: scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
##I did change the source process from original #SELINUX System Administration page 96
/usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 system_u:object_r:httpd_exec_t:SystemLow
##to
chcon -t httpd_t /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 && echo $?
0
#confirm the changes
ll -Z /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:httpd_t:SystemLow 439852 Mar 4 2013 /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2
service apache2 restart
[ ok ] Restarting web server: apache2 ... waiting .
#Test --> SUCCESS :-)
#On this case changing the source process context did the trick :-)#
#I was able to get this resolve thanks to the mentioned book just happened to have received as a present :-)
#Thanks to Sven Vermeulen & my brother who gave me the book :-)

Check PHP version

bdanin commented 3 February 2014 at 15:40

I got this error when I upgraded PHP to Version 5.5.8
~~So it seems Drupal won't run PHP -v 5.5.x~~

I'm using macports, so I can easily switch my versions. I reverted back to the default PHP 5 (PHP Version 5.3.28)
When I use PHP -v 5.3.x my sites load.

I simply edit my httpd.conf to change this

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
#LoadModule php5_module modules/mod_php55.so

I comment out my 5.5.x and restart apache to run Drupal locally.

Brian

Actually, check settings.php

bdanin commented 3 February 2014 at 15:39

Note, the real issue has to do with your settings.php

I changed my database connection from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1"
and now it's working. I had specifically defined localhost as 127.0.0.1 in my version 5.3

Now I can use Drupal 7 just fine with PHP 5.4.x and 5.5.x as well as 5.3.x

Brian