title: mysql malformed packet error after running makemigrations django
body: <p>The issue that we are getting is : we have run manage.py makemigrations and manage.py migrate successfully, after which we start getting the below error:</p>
  
  <pre><code> File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 110, in execute
      return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 250, in execute
      self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 50, in defaulterrorhandler
      raise errorvalue
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 247, in execute
      res = self._query(query)
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 411, in _query
      rowcount = self._do_query(q)
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 374, in _do_query
      db.query(q)
    File "/usr/local/goibibo/python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 292, in query
      _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
  django.db.utils.OperationalError: (2027, 'Malformed packet')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This issue does not come every time we run makemigrations.<br/>
  It comes randomly, but once it comes it just sticks and we have no clue on why this is happening.
  Can somebody assist us in fixing this and explain why this might be happening.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Packages Used in App:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>adium-theme-ubuntu==0.3.4
  appdirs==1.4.3
  asn1crypto==0.22.0
  backports-abc==0.5
  blinker==1.4
  boto3==1.4.4
  botocore==1.5.35
  certifi==2017.4.17
  cffi==1.10.0
  chardet==2.3.0
  click==6.7
  ConcurrentLogHandler==0.9.1
  configobj==5.0.6
  decorator==4.0.11
  Django==1.10.4
  djangorestframework==3.5.3
  docutils==0.13.1
  Flask==0.11.1
  futures==3.1.1
  gevent==1.2a1
  greenlet==0.4.10
  gyp==0.1
  idna==2.5
  itsdangerous==0.24
  Jinja2==2.8
  jmespath==0.9.2
  jsonpatch==1.10
  jsonpath==0.75
  jsonpath-rw==1.4.0
  jsonpointer==1.10
  MarkupSafe==1.0
  newrelic==2.82.0.62
  oauthlib==1.0.3
  packaging==16.8
  Pillow==3.1.2
  ply==3.10
  prettytable==0.7.2
  pyasn1==0.1.9
  pycparser==2.17
  pycurl==7.43.0
  PyJWT==1.3.0
  PyMySQL==0.7.9
  PyOpenGL==3.0.2
  pyparsing==2.2.0
  Pyrex==0.9.8.5
  pyserial==3.0.1
  PySocks==1.6.5
  python-dateutil==2.6.0
  PyYAML==3.11
  requests==2.14.2
  s3transfer==0.1.10
  singledispatch==3.4.0.3
  six==1.10.0
  SQLAlchemy==1.1.4
  ssh-import-id==5.5
  tornado==4.4.2
  unity-lens-photos==1.0
  urllib3==1.19.1
  virtualenv==15.1.0
  Werkzeug==0.12.1
  </code></pre>