SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away on running cron job magento

Question

I am working on Magento site and I get this error:

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away on running 
cron job magento

Answer 1

I don't have any timeout issues.

I moved a fclose(STDERR) line from my main file to a included file and this started happening.

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

I moved the line back to its original place and problem went away.

Basically, closing STDERR from an included file seems to have some crazy repercussions.