MySQL: How to fix ERROR 1153 (08S01)

How to fix ERROR 1153 (08S01): Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

Mysql Server Version: MySQL-server-community-5.1.41
OS: Open Suse 11.0 (server)

I tried to dump my database to mysql and got the error as stated in entry's title above.
The default value for max_allowed_packet is 1048576 (1M). The available range for it is between 1024 to 1 073 741 824.


Firstly, I think can edit the value by using command line when I signed in to mysql.
myserver:/etc/init.d # mysql -u root -p

mysql> SET @max_allowed_packet = '16M';
(Let say I want to increase the value to 16M).

But I got nothing, 0 row affected.
Ok, just exit from mysql.

Then open file mysql under directory /etc/init.d
vim /etc/init.d/mysql
I just pasted the excerpt from mysql file.
# If you want to affect other MySQL variables, you should make your changes

# in the /etc/my.cnf, ~/.my.cnf or other MySQL configuration files.

Then just create a file and name it as my.cnf inside /etc.
To make my life easy, I just copied[1] mysql file and then renamed[2] it as my.cnf
Then edit[3] my.cnf file.

[1]myserver:/etc/init.d # cp mysql /etc
[2] myserver:/etc/init.d # mv mysql my.cnf
[3] myserver:/etc/init.d #gedit my.cnf

Just add these two lines:
[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 16M

Then save it.
Then restart[4] msql service
[4] myserver:/etc/init.d # ./mysql restart

Again, sign in to mysql, and type command
mysql> show global variables like 'm%'; (Refer to Figure 1)

Figure 1: Show global variable in mysqld.


The new value will appear in the first row. Other way to check it is by typing this command
myserver:/etc/init.d # mysql service status (Refer to Figure 2)


Figure 2: An alternative method to look at variables set in mysqld.

Linux: Cannot find ./catalina.sh

Subject: Liferay Development Troubleshooting 1

Problem: Cannot find ./catalina.sh
OS: Ubuntu 9.04

Descritption
Cannot start tomcat sever with error 'Cannot find ./catalina.sh'. Refer to Figure 1 below

Figure 1: Cannot start tomcat server.


Solution

Make sure file permission to all files in bin (../tomcat-6.0.18/bin) directory can be executed.
Default mod: -rw-r--r--; means that the file can be read only.

Back to server directory, command line: cd ../../
Then change the file mode command line: sudo chmod 755 -R tomcat-6.0.18/*

Applying Accordion Function in Liferay.

Liferay Version: 5.2.3




This example refers to the accordion in this page.


The normal javascript looks like




To make it works in liferay environment, just adjust some codings for javascript.
The new coding is shown as below



Result:



To make it prettier, just edit the CSS.

Live demo for accordion in Liferay.