Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query

Question

I got the Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query error when I tried to add an index to a table using MySQL Workbench. I noticed als

Answer 1

Just perform a MySQL upgrade that will re-build innoDB engine along with rebuilding of many tables required for proper functioning of MySQL such as performance_schema, information_schema, etc.

Issue the below command from your shell:

sudo mysql_upgrade -u root -p