I realize mysql is not official supported, but I have this error in front of me
now so I thought I should submit the bug.  This happened on the server running
on svcdev.  It crashed with the following message....

DBD::mysql::st execute warning:  at
/home/dave/svndevel/private-branches/slimservice/CPAN/DBIx/ContextualFetch.pm
line 51.
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at
/home/dave/svndevel/private-branches/slimservice/CPAN/DBIx/ContextualFetch.pm
line 51.
Slim::DataStores::DBI::Track can't SELECT DISTINCT tracks.id AS id,tracks.thumb
AS thumb,tracks.age AS age,tracks.ct AS ct,tracks.titlesort AS titlesort,tra\
cks.album AS album,tracks.tracknum AS tracknum,tracks.url AS url,tracks.tag AS
tag,tracks.title AS title,tracks.disc AS disc,tracks.fs AS fs FROM genre_trac\
k, tracks, genres WHERE genre_track.track = tracks.id AND genres.id =
genre_track.genre  AND ( genres.namesort = ? ): DBD::mysql::st execute failed:
MySQL s\
erver has gone away at
/home/dave/svndevel/private-branches/slimservice/CPAN/DBIx/ContextualFetch.pm
line 51.
 at
/home/dave/svndevel/private-branches/slimservice/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DBIStore.pm
line 267


Why the mysql server went away I do not know.

-Dave