When I tried to save my previous post I received the following error.  When I went back in the browser and tried it again it worked fine.

error:

Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.

Original

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: INSERT INTO {watchdog} (uid, type, message, variables, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (:db_insert_placeholder_0, :db_insert_placeholder_1, :db_insert_placeholder_2, :db_insert_placeholder_3, :db_insert_placeholder_4, :db_insert_placeholder_5, :db_insert_placeholder_6, :db_insert_placeholder_7, :db_insert_placeholder_8, :db_insert_placeholder_9); Array ( [:db_insert_placeholder_0] => 7862 [:db_insert_placeholder_1] => node [:db_insert_placeholder_2] => %type: !message in %function (line %line of %file). [:db_insert_placeholder_3] => a:6:{s:5:"%type";s:12:"PDOException";s:8:"!message";s:384:"SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT pid FROM {url_alias} WHERE source <> :source AND alias = :alias AND language IN (:language, :language_none) ORDER BY language DESC, pid DESC LIMIT 0, 1; Array ( [:source] => node/12996 [:alias] => forum/strange-things-ipad-air/12996 [:language] => und [:language_none] => und ) ";s:9:"%function";s:24:"_pathauto_alias_exists()";s:5:"%file";s:108:"/home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/sites/all/modules/pathauto/pathauto.inc";s:5:"%line";i:73;s:14:"severity_level";i:3;} [:db_insert_placeholder_4] => 3 [:db_insert_placeholder_5] => [:db_insert_placeholder_6] => https://dev.apertureexpert.com/node/add/forum/23 [:db_insert_placeholder_7] => https://dev.apertureexpert.com/node/add/forum/23 [:db_insert_placeholder_8] => 212.79.106.68 [:db_insert_placeholder_9] => 1384559481 ) in dblog_watchdog() (line 160 of /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/modules/dblog/dblog.module).

Additional

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away in variable_set() (line 975 of /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/bootstrap.inc).

Uncaught exception thrown in session handler.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away in _drupal_session_write() (line 209 of /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/session.inc).

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away’ in /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/database/database.inc:2168 Stack trace: #0 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/database/database.inc(2168): PDOStatement->execute(Array) #1 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/database/database.inc(680): DatabaseStatementBase->execute(Array, Array) #2 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/database/database.inc(2347): DatabaseConnection->query(‘SELECT expire, …’, Array, Array) #3 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/lock.inc(167): db_query(‘SELECT expire, …’, Array) #4 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/lock.inc(146): lock_may_be_available(‘schema:runtime:…’) #5 /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.co in /home/apertureexpert/sites/dev.apertureexpert.com/apertureexpert.com/includes/database/database.inc on line 2168