Ticket create error on new queue

Created a new queue and when I try to create a ticket, get the
following:

error: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone
away at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Apache/Session/Lock/MySQL.pm line
70.
context:

66: if ($self->{lock}) {
67: local $self->{dbh}->{RaiseError} = 1;
68:
69: my $sth = $self->{dbh}->prepare_cached(q{SELECT
RELEASE_LOCK(?)}, {}, 1);
70: $sth->execute($self->{lockid});
71:
72: $self->{lock} = 0;
73: }
74: }

code stack:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Apache/Session/Lock/MySQL.pm:70
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Apache/Session/Lock/MySQL.pm:81
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Apache/Session/Lock/MySQL.pm:87
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:1254

This is the first time this has happened. Any idea on what I did wrong
in creating this queue?