MariaDB Error

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 4, 2025, at 9:57 AM, FreeRAD <yetifreerad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am receiving the below error in MariaDB and have managed to get to the
> third page of Google trying to fix it but nothing has worked.
> 
>  2025-11-04 12:25:36 3 [Warning] Could not read packet: fd: 55 state: 1
> read_length: 4 errno: 11 vio_errno: 1158 length: 0 2025-11-04 12:25:36 3
> [Warning] Aborted connection 3 to db: '***' user: '***' host: 'localhost'
> (Got an error reading communication packets)

  That's weird.

> The above errors seem to point to MariaDB being the issue but I've tried
> multiple versions and multiple different operating systems and all manner
> of different settings in MariaDB and cannot seem to get FreeRADIUS and
> MariaDB to contact each other correctly. Because of this I just wanted to
> clarify if this is a known issue.

  Nope.

  If you've tried all of those variants, then the problem isn't FreeRADIUS or MariaDB.  My guess would be that there's a firewall between the two systems which is breaking the connections.

  Alan DeKok.