Aborted connection problems

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

I seem to be getting heaps of aborted connections, and I can't figure 
out why. MySQL's error (from mysqld.err, below) is "Got an error reading 
communication packets", but this is a socket link to localhost so that 
rules out network problems. I simply can't figure it out. Has anyone got 
any ideas?

mysqld  Ver 5.0.13-rc-log for pc-linux-gnu on x86_64 (Gentoo Linux)


[/tmp/mysqld.sql]
051012 21:53:44      27 Connect     album_read@localhost on album
                      27 Query       SET NAMES utf8
                      28 Connect     album_read@localhost on album
                      28 Query       SET NAMES utf8
                      28 Query       CALL getRandomPhoto()
                      29 Connect     album_read@localhost on album
                      29 Query       SET NAMES utf8
                      29 Query       CALL getHelp('gallery')
                      29 Quit

[/var/log/mysql/mysqld.err]
051012 21:53:44 [Warning] Aborted connection 27 to db: 'album' user: 
'album_read' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)
051012 21:53:44 [Warning] Aborted connection 28 to db: 'album' user: 
'album_read' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)

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