MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: exception 'DBQueryError' with message 'A database error has occurred
Query: SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Thread%'
Function:
Error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away (localhost)
' in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php:647
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php(604): Database->reportQueryError('MySQL server ha...', 2006, 'SHOW STATUS LIK...', '', false)
#1 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php(1838): Database->query('SHOW STATUS LIK...')
#2 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/LoadBalancer.php(197): Database->getStatus('Thread%')
#3 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/LoadBalancer.php(364): LoadBalancer->getReaderIndex()
#4 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/DatabaseFunctions.php(52): LoadBalancer->getConnection(-1, true, Array)
#5 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Wiki.php(207): wfGetDB(-1)
#6 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Wiki.php(48): MediaWiki->initializeArticle(Object(Title), Object(WebRequest))
#7 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/index.php(123): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#8 {main}

Exception caught inside exception handler: exception 'DBUnexpectedError' with message 'Error in fetchObject(): MySQL server has gone away' in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php:764
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php(1840): Database->fetchObject(false)
#1 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/LoadBalancer.php(197): Database->getStatus('Thread%')
#2 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/LoadBalancer.php(364): LoadBalancer->getReaderIndex()
#3 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/DatabaseFunctions.php(52): LoadBalancer->getConnection(-1, true, Array)
#4 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/MessageCache.php(289): wfGetDB(-1)
#5 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/MessageCache.php(226): MessageCache->loadFromDB()
#6 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/MessageCache.php(423): MessageCache->load()
#7 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(450): MessageCache->get('databaseerror', true, false)
#8 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(409): wfMsgGetKey('databaseerror', true, false, true)
#9 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(17): wfMsgReal('databaseerror', Array)
#10 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Database.php(209): MWException->msg('databaseerror', 'Database error')
#11 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(46): DBQueryError->getPageTitle()
#12 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(70): MWException->reportHTML()
#13 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(145): MWException->report()
#14 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(179): wfReportException(Object(DBQueryError))
#15 [internal function]: wfExceptionHandler(Object(DBQueryError))
#16 {main}