vb.org Archive - Connected party did not localhost:3306

I'm getting about 60 of these error messages per day. All of them have attachment or cron as the script source. Hardly any information unfortunately.

Here's what they all look like:

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect(): [2002] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not (trying to connect via tcp://localhost:3306)
\vbulletin\includes\class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Tuesday, November 24th 2009 @ 02:14:14 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, November 24th 2009 @ 02:15:14 AM
Script : /vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=13591&stc=1&d=12274219 45
Referrer : /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21616&page=20
IP Address : 72.39.137.26
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

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Quote:

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect(): [2002] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not (trying to connect via tcp://localhost:3306)
\vbulletin\includes\class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Monday, November 23rd 2009 @ 11:55:03 PM
Error Date : Monday, November 23rd 2009 @ 11:56:03 PM
Script : /vbulletin/cron.php?rand=1259020500
Referrer : /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=33592&page=3
IP Address : 66.227.232.138
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

On Vbulletin.com they mentioned it might have to do with wait and connect timeouts so I upped both - my wait and connect timeouts are set to 240. Still get the error message quite frequently.

I *believe* when the error message occurs that the users get a blank page. I've been getting a lot of blank pages on and off when trying to load a page - it will just hang and not want to load the page and then just gives a blank page. I'm just assuming that these error messages are part of the blank pages issue too.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01605 seconds Memory Usage 1,710KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (1)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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