Error on views page. Any idea what this means? Uncaught exception thrown in session handler.


  PDOException: SQLSTATE[08S01]: Communication link failure: 1153 Got a
  packet bigger than &#039;max_allowed_packet&#039; bytes: UPDATE
  {sessions} SET uid=:db_update_placeholder_0,
  cache=:db_update_placeholder_1, hostname=:db_update_placeholder_2,
  session=:db_update_placeholder_3, timestamp=:db_update_placeholder_4
  WHERE ( (sid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND (ssid =
  :db_condition_placeholder_1) ); Array ( [:db_update_placeholder_0]
  =&gt; 1 [:db_update_placeholder_1] =&gt; 0 [:db_update_placeholder_2] =&gt; 173.8.158.117 [:db_update_placeholder_3] =&gt; Wpw4khR1syd0trFnNVSUxDsOs_MtPQ


That gibberish at the end beginning with =&amp;gt; goes on for dozens of pages dumped directly onto the page. Any idea what to look into?
You likely need to bump up max_allowed_packet in your MySQL instance.  That query is likey trying to store a large amount of data.  I have never seen this at runtime, though.  I have only had problems with this variable when trying to restore backups.