FIPS mode causes 3rd-party Percona MySQL to drop connections
Issue
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After enabling FIPS mode, we can still login to our Percona mysql db on the command-line, but any
USE <db>command fails like this:mysql> use mysql; No connection. Trying to reconnect... Connection id: 1 Current database: *** NONE *** Database changed mysql> show tables; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection. Trying to reconnect... Connection id: 1 Current database: *** mysql *** ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection. Trying to reconnect... ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) ERROR: Can't connect to the server -
Disabling FIPS resolves the issue
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Percona Server, a MySQL replacement
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