Symptom

Installation on RedHat Linux 5.6 using MySQL database server failed with the following error message

The last packet successfully received from the server was 474,061 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 18 milliseconds ago.
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:44)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
     [java]     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:516)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:407)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1116)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3358)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1970)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2150)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2626)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2119)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.execute(PreparedStatement.java:1362)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.createResultSetUsingServerFetch(StatementImpl.java:556)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1408)
     [java]     at com.mysql.jdbc.DatabaseMetaData.getUserName(DatabaseMetaData.java:6721)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.custom.CustomEntityDBHome.loadMetaData(CustomEntityDBHome.java:117)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.custom.CustomEntityDBHome.<init>(CustomEntityDBHome.java:87)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.XMLMigrator.getCustomEntityClass(XMLMigrator.java:270)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.XMLMigrator.invokeInserts(XMLMigrator.java:306)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.XMLMigrator.migrateEntity(XMLMigrator.java:225)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.XMLMigrator.migrate(XMLMigrator.java:113)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.callMigrator(MigratorMain.java:378)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.actualExecuteTask(MigratorMain.java:330)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.executeTask(MigratorMain.java:305)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.migrate(MigratorMain.java:258)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.callMigrator(MigratorMain.java:378)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.actualExecuteTask(MigratorMain.java:330)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.executeTask(MigratorMain.java:305)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.actualExecuteTask(MigratorMain.java:344)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.executeTask(MigratorMain.java:305)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.migrate(MigratorMain.java:258)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.performMigration(MigratorMain.java:141)
     [java]     at com.yantra.tools.migrator.MigratorMain.main(MigratorMain.java:166)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:48)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     [java]     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:600)
     [java]     at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.noapp.NoAppLoader.main(NoAppLoader.java:82)

Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe