Plesk

Plesk on Windows repeatedly show errors on Event Viewer: Aborted connection – Got an error reading communication packets

Symptoms

Cause

Product issue:

  • #PPPM-12737 "MariaDB error logs no longer contain misleading “Aborted connection” warnings related to the plesksrv service. (PPPM-12737"
    Fixed in:

Resolution

Please consider updating your server:

Workaround

If update is not possible for some reason, the following can be done:

workaround

As a workaround, increase the max_allowed_packet value.

  1. Connect to the server via RDP.
  2. Open %plesk_dir%MySQLmy.ini file in a text editor.
  3. Set max_allowed_packet value to 10M, save the changes and then close the file.

    max_allowed_packet=10M

  1. Restart the Plesk SQL Server via Plesk Services Monitor (Plesk icon in the tray menu).

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