Its very rare case when I see message :
“MYSQL server has gone away” , a few things to consider are :
* Check variable max_timeout
* Check variable max_allowed_packet
These setting available in my.ini or my.cf file, edit the value and restart mysql daemon.
Example :
max_allowed_packet=16M
max_timeout=28800
Try again to import database using mysql command and see the different

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That message show up when I install gammu from source in Ubuntu server 8.04 :
root@dns:/home/edpteam# gammu –smsd MYSQL smsdrc
Unknown SMSD service type (”MYSQL”)
After dig in mailing list I have clue to install mysql library :
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed
and are no longer [...]

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C:\gammu2>gammu –smsd MYSQL smsdrc
Log filename is “smsdlog”
Stop GAMMU smsd (27)
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:10 : Stop GAMMU smsd (27)
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : Start GAMMU smsd
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : PIN code is “1234″
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : commtimeout=1, sendtimeout=10, receivefrequency=0, resetfrequency=0
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : deliveryreport = no
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : phoneid =
Fri 2008/06/06 11:06:53 : No table for sent [...]

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Just another post for my archive
One our sandbox accidently delete root account with host ‘localhost’. We need to recover the account by grant new root account back into system.
The steps are :
1. Turn off mysql service
sandbox# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server stop

2. Run mysql with skip grant table mode
sandbox# mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables &
[1] 5187
sandbox# Starting mysqld daemon with [...]

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