Plesk UI is unresponsive: Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

Symptoms

• Plesk UI is unresponsive with the following error:

  CONFIG_TEXT: Server Error
  500
  Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception
  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

• The following or similar errors are being written to /var/log/plesk/panel.log:

  CONFIG_TEXT: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory' in /usr/local/psa/admin/externals/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:129
  ...

  OR

  CONFIG_TEXT: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused in /opt/psa/admin/plib/vendor/plesk/zendframework/library/Zend/Db/Adapte[2019-09-03 16:44:01.713] ERR [panel] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused:

• The root partition is running out of a free space:

  # df -h
  Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/mapper/centos-root 50G 50G 9M 100% /
  devtmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev
  tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev/shm
  tmpfs 7.7G 121M 7.6G 2% /run

Cause

Connection to the database is repeatedly dropping, causing Plesk unavailability before spare space is freed by automatic deletion of a temporary file.

Resolution

Clearing some free space or expand the partition:

• How to clean temporary Plesk files on a Linux server