mysql chef database recipe fails on large file

问题

"MySQL server has gone away". Hmm.

I am using vagrant and chef to setup my virtual development environment. I'm almost there, but on the last step chef fails when attempting to execute my external db_setup.sql file. I can execute this same script by SSH'ing into the virtual server and it installs without difficulty.

This is my problem code (in cookbooks/database/recipies/mysql.rb file):

# Query a database from a sql script on disk
mysql_database 'run script' do
  database_name 'my_db'
  connection mysql_connection_info
  retries 3
  sql { ::File.open('/vagrant/db_setup.sql').read }
  action :query
end

The file is 6.9mb and the error I receive when I run vagrant provision is:

==> default: [2014-08-24T16:04:53-07:00] ERROR: mysql_database[run script] 
(database::mysql line 50) had an error: Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away

For what it's worth, when I replace the db_setup.sql file with a smaller, simpler file that just creates a few empty tables, it executes without difficulty.

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

回答1:

Many, many things can cause this error. In my experience it's usually an SQL file of over 1MB, or, the wait_timeout in your servers my.cnf is set very low (sixty seconds) needs properly tuned. When deploying my.cnf try a wait_timeout 86400 and a max_allowed_packet of "enough" to import that file.

For example:

 [mysqld]
 wait_timeout = 86400
 max_allowed_packet = 1GB

PS. I would not recommend this high of parameters in actual production.

回答2:

I worked around this issue by getting Chef to leverage the mysql command line tool instead of using Ruby to read the .sql file.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25477128/mysql-chef-database-recipe-fails-on-large-file