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Hi guys,
I checked the zm forum all night long, controlled the FAQ and all the stuff you can find via Google. Also checked the documentation. Anyway, my ZM installation works but I found this annoying message in the zmwatch.log file:

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/bin/zmwatch.pl line 121.
Can't execute: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/bin/zmwatch.pl line 121.

I've checked MySQL installation: no problems whatsoever, the tables are ok (checked the permission, checked the db and the tables via mysqlcheck).

My installation: Linux Fedora Core 4, Apache 2, MySQL 4.1.12, PHP 5.0.4, ffmpeg 0.4.9-pre1, LAME 3.96.1. I built ZM from scratch with

./configure --with-mysql=/usr --with-ffmpeg=/usr/bin --with-lame=/usr/bin --with-webdir=/var/www/html --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --with-webuser=apache --with-webgroup=apache

and everything went smoothly.

Could you please help me?
Thank you in advance!

Is mysql still running after you get this error? Can you check the mysql logs (probably in /var/lig/mysql I think) to see if the server thinks anything odd is happening.

Phil