Title: Activation error
Last modified: July 24, 2017

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# Activation error

 *  Resolved [underWorded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/underworded/)
 * (@underworded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-77/)
 * Hi, there’s an error with my WordPress dashboard, in the plugin section it says
   at the bottom of the page:
    “If you have a moment, please let us know why you
   are deactivating:
 *  The plugin suddenly stopped working
    I found a better plugin The plugin broke
   my site I only needed the plugin for a short period I no longer need the plugin
   It’s a temporary deactivation. I’m just debugging an issue.”
 * Initially I couldn’t figure out what plugin was being referred to because I hadn’t
   deactivated anything. But on deactivation I saw it was Content Aware Sidebars
   that was deactivated. On reactivation the message appears again, this happens
   whenever I repeat this process.
 * In the error logs of the site I’ve seen this error message:
 * WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value
   FROM wp4t_options WHERE option_name = ‘fs_storage_logger’ LIMIT 1 made by require(‘
   wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’),
   require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), include_once(‘/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/
   content-aware-sidebars.php’), require(‘/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/freemius.
   php’), cas_fs, fs_dynamic_init, Freemius::instance, Freemius::_load_required_static,
   FS_Logger::get_logger, FS_Logger::init, get_option
 * The site host is saying this plugin may be causing a MySQL issue, any ideas on
   this? I have this plugin on several sites with no issues.

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 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-77/#post-9351731)
 * Thank you for reporting this.
 * The error message sounds like the MySQL connection times out for some reason.
 * The other sites where the plugin is working fine, do they use the same host?
   
   Do you know what versions of PHP and MySQL your host is using? Does the problem
   remain if you deactivate other plugins?
 *  Thread Starter [underWorded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/underworded/)
 * (@underworded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-77/#post-9353051)
 * Hi Joachim, I’m pretty sure this was the host’s MySQL server falling over, and
   not any issue with the plugin. My host told me that my scripts were taking to
   long to execute, which since all WordPress sites on that same server fell over,
   seems unlikely
 * I installed John Blackbourn’s Query Monitor and no slow queries were consistently
   found on any page of the problem site. It measures just about every aspect of
   site functioning and found no issues.
 * As to the erroneous message, again I don’t think your plugin was the culprit.
   I updated the theme, Themify’s Ultra, and the message disappeared.
 * Thanks for the response though, appreciate it.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by [underWorded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/underworded/).

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-77/#post-9353051)
 * Status: resolved