Tomcat6 can't connect to MySql (The driver has not received any packets from the server)

Question

i\'m running an Apache Tomcat 6.0.20 / MySQL 5.1.37-lubuntu / sun-java6-jdk /sun-java6-jre / sun-java6-bin on my local machine using Ubuntu 9.10 as OS. I\'m trying to get a

Answer 1

I had the same issue.

It turns out I messed up the server by running three mysqld instances, so kill the unwanted resolved my issue:

me@ubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep mysql
mysql     8149  0.1  0.4 280484 26008 ?        Ssl  13:24   0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld
me     8256  0.0  0.0   4392   836 pts/3    S+   13:24   0:00 grep --color=auto mysql
root     26569  0.0  0.0   5952  1856 ?        S    10:44   0:00 sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking
mysql    26570  0.1  0.6 323528 41936 ?        Sl   10:44   0:15 /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking

me@ubuntu:~$ sudo kill 26570