Tomcat6 can't connect to MySql (The driver has not received any packets from the server)

Question

i'm running an Apache Tomcat 6.0.20 / MySQL 5.1.37-lubuntu / sun-java6-jdk /sun-java6-jre / sun-java6-bin on my local machine using Ubuntu 9.10 as OS. I'm trying to get a simple DB-query example running for 2 days now, but i still get this Exception:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.)"
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:522)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:398)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.)"
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:862)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:791)
 org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:104)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

root cause

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.)"
 org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.sql.QueryTagSupport.getConnection(QueryTagSupport.java:285)
 org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.sql.QueryTagSupport.doStartTag(QueryTagSupport.java:168)
 org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_sql_005fquery_005f0(index_jsp.java:274)
 org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fotherwise_005f0(index_jsp.java:216)
 org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fchoose_005f0(index_jsp.java:130)
 org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:93)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

my web.xml looks like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    version="2.5">
  <resource-ref>
      <description>DB Connection</description>
      <res-ref-name>jdbc/testDB</res-ref-name>
      <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
      <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
  </resource-ref>
</web-app>

the context.xml looks like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/my1stApp" docBase="/var/www/jsp/my1stApp" debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
    <Resource name="jdbc/testDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    maxActive="5" maxIdle="5" maxWait="10000"
    username="user" password="password" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/some"/>
</Context>

and the jsp file looks like this:

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>

<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="sql" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" %>


<html>

  <head>

    <title>DroneLootTool</title>

  </head>

  <body bgcolor="white">



 <sql:query var="res" dataSource="jdbc/testDB">
  select name, othername 
  from mytable
 </sql:query>

  <h2>Results</h2>

<c:forEach var="row" items="${res.rows}">
    Name ${row.name}<br/>
    MoreName ${row.othername}<br/><br/>
</c:forEach>


  </body>

</html>

read lots of forum entries / tried lots of different settings (always changed back to original settings when it didnt' work)
set TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no in /etc/default/tomcat6 because TOMCAT6_SECURITY=yes was causing trouble too
the skip-networking flag is not set for the DB (BIND 127.0.0.1 is set)
firewall is swiched off (sudo ufw disable)
MySQL works (tested several times with user used in this skript)
telnet localhost 3306 says

Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host.

The TestConnection.java produced the following output:

me@my-laptop:~/Desktop$ java -classpath '/usr/share/java/mysql.jar:./' TestConnection com.mysql.jdbc.Driver jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testDB myuser mypassword

com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
    Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1070)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2103)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:718)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:298)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:282)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
        at TestConnection.checkConnection(TestConnection.java:40)
        at TestConnection.main(TestConnection.java:21)
    Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

    Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1070)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:666)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1069)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2031)
        ... 7 more
    Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:2431)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:590)
        ... 9 more
    Connection failed.

i don't know if there is a difference between the way the java driver connects to the DB and the Perl DBI module does, but this PERL skript works

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use CGI;
use DBI;
use strict;

print CGI::header();

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:some:localhost", "user", "password");

my $sSql = "SELECT * from mytable";

my $ppl = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( $sSql );

foreach my $pl (@$ppl)
{
  my @array = @$pl;
  print @array;
}

$dbh->disconnect;

enabled --log-warnings on the mysql, but i didn't get any new warnings. When i was searching the logs for warnings i found this messages when i restart the tomcat, don't know if it helps to find the problem :

Feb  2 19:50:37 tobias-laptop jsvc.exec[3129]: 02.02.2010 19:50:37 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources#012INFO: Undeploying context [/myapp]
Feb  2 19:50:37 tobias-laptop jsvc.exec[3129]: 02.02.2010 19:50:37 org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads#012SCHWERWIEGEND: A web application appears to have started a thread named [MySQL Statement Cancellation Timer] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Feb  2 19:50:37 tobias-laptop jsvc.exec[3129]: 02.02.2010 19:50:37 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor#012INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor myapp.xml

Could you try the `TestConnection.java` from http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/techsupp/miprod.nsf/kbase_by_product/B309A6631406A514852569770060E795 and update the question with the result? — Pascal Thivent, Jan 31 '10 at 17:46
Where have you placed the mysql driver jar ? Try removing the auth="Container" attribute as well — nos, Jan 31 '10 at 18:45
the mysql.jar symlinked in tomcat6/lib from /usr/share/java. in /usr/share/java mysql.jar is a symlink to the actual file in the same directory. tried versions mysql-connector-java-5.1.11 and 5.1.6. removing the auth="Container" attribute doesn't help either. :( — Tobias Wiesenthal, Feb 01 '10 at 12:03
At least we know that the problem is not at the Tomcat level now... — Pascal Thivent, Feb 01 '10 at 22:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '13 at 05:34

I had the same issue.

It turns out I messed up the server by running three mysqld instances, so kill the unwanted resolved my issue:

me@ubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep mysql
mysql     8149  0.1  0.4 280484 26008 ?        Ssl  13:24   0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld
me     8256  0.0  0.0   4392   836 pts/3    S+   13:24   0:00 grep --color=auto mysql
root     26569  0.0  0.0   5952  1856 ?        S    10:44   0:00 sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking
mysql    26570  0.1  0.6 323528 41936 ?        Sl   10:44   0:15 /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking

me@ubuntu:~$ sudo kill 26570

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '10 at 20:51

I solved this problem. The reason why this error occurs is tomcat security restrictions.

You have to add following line to your $TOMCAT-CONFIG/policy.d/04webapps.policy

permission java.net.SocketPermission "127.0.0.1:3306", "connect";

Works for me, hope it will work for you too :)

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 30 '12 at 00:26

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Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/indiadb","root","root");

Check:

the port number it must be only 3306
Add the mysql.jar in lib if you are using Tomcat6

edited Mar 30 '12 at 00:26

answered Mar 29 '12 at 07:00

Rahul Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '10 at 12:24

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Please try with an "official" Connector/J 5.1 i.e. distributed by MySQL, not a deb (note that I have nothing against deb).

Also please enable --log-warnings on the mysql server and see if anything is showing up in your error logs.

answered Feb 02 '10 at 12:24

Pascal Thivent

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i use the official connector version 5.1.11, enabled --log-warnings. updated the question – Tobias Wiesenthal Feb 03 '10 at 07:30

Tomcat6 can't connect to MySql (The driver has not received any packets from the server)

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