__Note:__ this behaviour was also observed when attempting to install Drupal 7 on the Joyent Public Cloud, with errors such as:

{{{
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away:
}}}

Whatever fix is identified below should also be applied to this use case if needed. (2016-02-28T10:18:44.428Z)

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__Note:__ this behaviour was also observed when attempting to install Drupal 7 on the Joyent Public Cloud, with errors such as:

{{{
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away:
}}}

Whatever fix is identified below should also be applied to this use case if needed. (2016-02-28T10:18:44.428Z)

This is some more text.
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