[ensembl-dev] Perl programmatic access to MySQL server failed

Timothé van Meter timothe.vm at posteo.net
Tue Jun 4 15:06:56 BST 2024


Hello,


I am using a perl script to access programmatically the ensembl database 
for the mouse's genome. This script which was previously working for a 
while without any warnings is now not functioning anymore with the 
following error message:

"
DBI connect('host=ensembldb.ensembl.org;port=3306','anonymous',...) 
failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ensembldb.ensembl.org:3306' 
(110) at /home/timothe/src/ensembl/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm line 
1771.

-------------------- EXCEPTION --------------------
MSG: Cannot connect to the Ensembl MySQL server at 
ensembldb.ensembl.org:3306; check your settings & DBI error message: 
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ensembldb.ensembl.org:3306' (110)
STACK Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry::load_registry_from_db 
/home/timothe/src/ensembl/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm:1771
STACK toplevel get.associated.genes.pl:31
Date (localtime)    = Tue Jun  4 15:41:31 2024
Ensembl API version = 110
---------------------------------------------------
"

I copied the entire script I am using, get.associated.genes.pl, at the 
end of this email.

Below I am reporting the output of the recommended commands for 
debugging the Ensembl API hoping they might be useful.

calling ping -c 5 in the terminal returns the following:
PING hl-ensembl-databases.ebi.ac.uk (193.62.192.245) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- hl-ensembl-databases.ebi.ac.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4084ms


Below the output of the perl ping_ensembl.pl script advised on the 
"Debugging Ensembl API Connections" webpage:

-------------------- EXCEPTION --------------------
MSG: Cannot connect to the Ensembl MySQL server at 
ensembldb.ensembl.org:3306; check your settings & DBI error message: 
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ensembldb.ensembl.org:3306' (110)
STACK Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry::load_registry_from_db 
/home/timothe/src/ensembl/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm:1771
STACK (eval) ping_ensembl.pl:122
STACK toplevel ping_ensembl.pl:113
Date (localtime)    = Tue Jun  4 11:52:08 2024
Ensembl API version = 110
---------------------------------------------------


The output of the "perl -V" command is written at the end of the message.

The output of the "perl -MDBI -e 'warn $DBI::VERSION'" command: 1.643 at 
-e line 1.

The output of the "perl -MDBD::mysql -e 'warn $DBD::mysql::VERSION'" 
command: 5.003 at -e line 1.

I am available to answer any questions that might further help solve 
this problem. Thank you in advance for your consideration.


Best regards,
Timothé van Meter




# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Contents of the script get.associated.genes.pl
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry;
use Bio::Tools::Run::Ensembl;
use Try::Tiny;
use Term::ProgressBar;

# my $filename = '/data/blasting/out.awk';
my $filename = $ARGV[0];
my $extension = 4000;

# # Name of the output file with enhancers
my $output = 'test.genes.associated';

my $registry = "Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry";
$registry->load_registry_from_db(
     -HOST => 'ensembldb.ensembl.org',
     -USER => 'anonymous',
     # -PORT    => '3306'
     # -PORT    => '5306'
     -VERBOSE => 1
     );

sub parsePromoters {
     my ($filename) = @_;
     my @promoters;
     open(FH, '<', $filename) or die $!;
     while(<FH>){
     chomp;
     push @promoters, [ split(/ /, $_) ];
     }
     close(FH);
     return @promoters;
}


my $slice_adaptor = $registry->get_adaptor( "Mouse", 'Core', 'Slice' );
# # my $slice = $slice_adaptor->fetch_by_region( 'chromosome', '10', 
3700000, 3830000 );
my @genes;

# # OPEN THE OUTPUT FILE AND PRINT THE
# #  RESULTS DIRECTLY IN IT
open(FH, '>', $output) or die $!;

my $i = 0;

my @testGenes;

# LOOP OVER ALL GENES LOADED FROM FILE
for $i (0 .. $#promoters) {
     print "$promoters[$i][0]\n";
     # if( exists( $hash{$gene} )) {
     # my $slice;
     my $start = $promoters[$i][3] - $extension;
     my $end = $promoters[$i][4] + $extension;
     try {

     print "region = ", $promoters[$i][2], " : ", $start, " - ", $end, "\n";

     my $slice = $slice_adaptor->fetch_by_region( 'chromosome', 
$promoters[$i][2], $start, $end );
     # my $slice = $slice_adaptor->fetch_by_region( 'chromosome', '10', 
3770000, 3790000 );
     foreach my $gene ( @{ $slice->get_all_Genes() } ) {
         print "Gene ID: ", $gene->stable_id, "\n";
         # print "Gene Name: ", $gene->display_id, "\n";
         push @testGenes, [ $promoters[$i][0], $gene->stable_id, 
$gene->seq_region_start(), $gene->seq_region_end() ];
     }

     # print "@{ $slice->get_all_Genes() }\n";

     # push @genes, @templist;

     # print "$genes[0][0]\n";

     # print FH "\n>", $genes[0], "\n";

     } catch {
     next;
     }
     # } else {
     #     next;
     # }
     # $progress_bar->update($i);
     # $i++;
}
print "\n---------------\n";

# foreach my gene (@testGenes) {
#     print $gene[0]," ",$gene[1]," ",$gene[2],"\n";
# }
for my $i (0 .. $#testGenes) {
     # print FH $testGenes[$i][0]," ",$testGenes[$i][1]," 
",$testGenes[$i][2],"\n";
     print FH $testGenes[$i][0]," ",$testGenes[$i][1],"\n";
}
# # CLOSE STREAM TO OUTPUT FILE
close(FH);

print "DONE!\n\n";
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Output of perl -V
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 34 subversion 0) configuration:

   Platform:
     osname=linux
     osvers=4.19.0
     archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
     uname='linux localhost 4.19.0 #1 smp debian 4.19.0 x86_64 gnulinux '
     config_args='-Dmksymlinks -Dusethreads -Duselargefiles 
-Dcc=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Dcpp=x86_64-linux-gnu-cpp 
-Dld=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Wdate-time 
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/dummy/build/dir=. 
-flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects 
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Dldflags= 
-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto 
-Wl,-z,relro -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto 
-ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -Wl,-z,relro -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC 
-Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.34 
-Darchlib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34 -Dvendorprefix=/usr 
-Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 
-Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.34 
-Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.34.0 
-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34.0 
-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 
-Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 
-Duse64bitint -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl 
-Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio 
-Uusenm -Ui_libutil -Ui_xlocale -Uversiononly -DDEBUGGING=-g 
-Doptimize=-O2 -dEs -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.34.0'
     hint=recommended
     useposix=true
     d_sigaction=define
     useithreads=define
     usemultiplicity=define
     use64bitint=define
     use64bitall=define
     uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n
     default_inc_excludes_dot=define
   Compiler:
     cc='x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc'
     ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fwrapv 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
     optimize='-O2 -g'
     cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fwrapv 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
     ccversion=''
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     gccosandvers=''
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     doublekind=3
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     d_longdbl=define
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     nvtype='double'
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     Off_t='off_t'
     lseeksize=8
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     prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc'
     ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib
     libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
     perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
     libc=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
     so=so
     useshrplib=true
     libperl=libperl.so.5.34
     gnulibc_version='2.35'
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
     dlext=so
     d_dlsymun=undef
     ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
     cccdlflags='-fPIC'
     lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
   Compile-time options:
     HAS_TIMES
     MULTIPLICITY
     PERLIO_LAYERS
     PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
     PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
     PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
     PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
     PERL_OP_PARENT
     PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
     USE_64_BIT_ALL
     USE_64_BIT_INT
     USE_ITHREADS
     USE_LARGE_FILES
     USE_LOCALE
     USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
     USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
     USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
     USE_LOCALE_TIME
     USE_PERLIO
     USE_PERL_ATOF
     USE_REENTRANT_API
     USE_THREAD_SAFE_LOCALE
   Locally applied patches:
     DEBPKG:debian/cpan_definstalldirs - Provide a sensible INSTALLDIRS 
default for modules installed from CPAN.
     DEBPKG:debian/db_file_ver - https://bugs.debian.org/340047 Remove 
overly restrictive DB_File version check.
     DEBPKG:debian/doc_info - Replace generic man(1) instructions with 
Debian-specific information.
     DEBPKG:debian/enc2xs_inc - https://bugs.debian.org/290336 Tweak 
enc2xs to follow symlinks and ignore missing @INC directories.
     DEBPKG:debian/errno_ver - https://bugs.debian.org/343351 Remove 
Errno version check due to upgrade problems with long-running processes.
     DEBPKG:debian/libperl_embed_doc - https://bugs.debian.org/186778 
Note that libperl-dev package is required for embedded linking
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install directories
     DEBPKG:debian/extutils_set_libperl_path - EU:MM: set location of 
libperl.a under /usr/lib
     DEBPKG:debian/no_packlist_perllocal - Don't install .packlist or 
perllocal.pod for perl or vendor
     DEBPKG:debian/fakeroot - Postpone LD_LIBRARY_PATH evaluation to the 
binary targets.
     DEBPKG:debian/instmodsh_doc - Debian policy doesn't install 
.packlist files for core or vendor.
     DEBPKG:debian/ld_run_path - Remove standard libs from LD_RUN_PATH 
as per Debian policy.
     DEBPKG:debian/libnet_config_path - Set location of libnet.cfg to 
/etc/perl/Net as /usr may not be writable.
     DEBPKG:debian/perlivp - https://bugs.debian.org/510895 Make perlivp 
skip include directories in /usr/local
     DEBPKG:debian/squelch-locale-warnings - 
https://bugs.debian.org/508764 Squelch locale warnings in Debian package 
maintainer scripts
     DEBPKG:debian/patchlevel - https://bugs.debian.org/567489 List 
packaged patches for 5.34.0-3ubuntu1.3 in patchlevel.h
     DEBPKG:fixes/document_makemaker_ccflags - 
https://bugs.debian.org/628522 [rt.cpan.org #68613] Document that 
CCFLAGS should include $Config{ccflags}
     DEBPKG:debian/find_html2text - https://bugs.debian.org/640479 
Configure CPAN::Distribution with correct name of html2text
     DEBPKG:debian/perl5db-x-terminal-emulator.patch - 
https://bugs.debian.org/668490 Invoke x-terminal-emulator rather than 
xterm in perl5db.pl
     DEBPKG:debian/cpan-missing-site-dirs - 
https://bugs.debian.org/688842 Fix CPAN::FirstTime defaults with 
nonexisting site dirs if a parent is writable
     DEBPKG:fixes/memoize_storable_nstore - [rt.cpan.org #77790] 
https://bugs.debian.org/587650 Memoize::Storable: respect 'nstore' 
option not respected
     DEBPKG:debian/makemaker-pasthru - https://bugs.debian.org/758471 
Pass LD settings through to subdirectories
     DEBPKG:debian/makemaker-manext - https://bugs.debian.org/247370 
Make EU::MakeMaker honour MANnEXT settings in generated manpage headers
     DEBPKG:debian/kfreebsd-softupdates - https://bugs.debian.org/796798 
Work around Debian Bug#796798
     DEBPKG:fixes/memoize-pod - [rt.cpan.org #89441] Fix POD errors in 
Memoize
     DEBPKG:debian/hurd-softupdates - https://bugs.debian.org/822735 Fix 
t/op/stat.t failures on hurd
     DEBPKG:fixes/math_complex_doc_great_circle - 
https://bugs.debian.org/697567 [rt.cpan.org #114104] Math::Trig: clarify 
definition of great_circle_midpoint
     DEBPKG:fixes/math_complex_doc_see_also - 
https://bugs.debian.org/697568 [rt.cpan.org #114105] Math::Trig: add 
missing SEE ALSO
     DEBPKG:fixes/math_complex_doc_angle_units - 
https://bugs.debian.org/731505 [rt.cpan.org #114106] Math::Trig: 
document angle units
     DEBPKG:fixes/cpan_web_link - https://bugs.debian.org/367291 CPAN: 
Add link to main CPAN web site
     DEBPKG:debian/hppa_op_optimize_workaround - 
https://bugs.debian.org/838613 Temporarily lower the optimization of 
op.c on hppa due to gcc-6 problems
     DEBPKG:debian/installman-utf8 - https://bugs.debian.org/840211 
Generate man pages with UTF-8 characters
     DEBPKG:debian/hppa_opmini_optimize_workaround - 
https://bugs.debian.org/869122 Lower the optimization level of opmini.c 
on hppa
     DEBPKG:debian/sh4_op_optimize_workaround - 
https://bugs.debian.org/869373 Also lower the optimization level of op.c 
and opmini.c on sh4
     DEBPKG:debian/perldoc-pager - https://bugs.debian.org/870340 
[rt.cpan.org #120229] Fix perldoc terminal escapes when sensible-pager 
is less
     DEBPKG:debian/prune_libs - https://bugs.debian.org/128355 Prune the 
list of libraries wanted to what we actually need.
     DEBPKG:debian/mod_paths - Tweak @INC ordering for Debian
     DEBPKG:debian/deprecate-with-apt - https://bugs.debian.org/747628 
Point users to Debian packages of deprecated core modules
     DEBPKG:debian/disable-stack-check - https://bugs.debian.org/902779 
[GH #16607] Disable debugperl stack extension checks for binary 
compatibility with perl
     DEBPKG:debian/perlbug-editor - https://bugs.debian.org/922609 Use 
"editor" as the default perlbug editor, as per Debian policy
     DEBPKG:debian/eu-mm-perl-base - https://bugs.debian.org/962138 
Suppress an ExtUtils::MakeMaker warning about our non-default @INC
     DEBPKG:fixes/io_socket_ip_ipv6 - Disable getaddrinfo(3) 
AI_ADDRCONFIG for localhost and IPv4 numeric addresses
     DEBPKG:debian/usrmerge-lib64 - https://bugs.debian.org/914128 
Configure / libpth.U: Do not adjust glibpth when /usr/lib64 is present.
     DEBPKG:debian/usrmerge-realpath - https://bugs.debian.org/914128 
Configure / libpth.U: use realpath --no-symlinks on Debian
     DEBPKG:debian/configure-regen - https://bugs.debian.org/762638 
Regenerate Configure et al. after probe unit changes
     DEBPKG:fixes/x32-io-msg-skip - https://bugs.debian.org/922609 Skip 
io/msg.t on x32 due to broken System V message queues
     DEBPKG:fixes/encode-CVE-2021-36770 - mitigate @INC pollution when 
loading ConfigLocal
     DEBPKG:fixes/gdbm-1.20 - https://bugs.debian.org/993514 [GH #18915] 
Fix GDBM_File to compile with version 1.20 and earlier
     DEBPKG:disable-libperl-tests -
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-1.patch - [PATCH] bugfix: signature 
verification type CANNOT_VERIFY was not recognized
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-2.patch - [PATCH] Add two new failure modes 
based on cpan_path
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-3.patch - [PATCH] use gpg --verify --output 
... to disentangle data and signature
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-4.patch - [PATCH] replacing die with mydie in 
three spots
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-5.patch - [PATCH] disambiguate the call to 
gpg --output by adding --verify
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-6.patch - [PATCH] s/gpg/$gpg/ in system, add 
quotes where needed
     DEBPKG:CVE-2020-16156-7.patch - [PATCH] s,/dev/null,$devnull,
     DEBPKG:CVE-2023-31484.patch - [PATCH] Add verify_SSL=>1 to 
HTTP::Tiny to verify https server identity
     DEBPKG:CVE-2023-47038.patch - [PATCH 1/2] Fix read/write past 
buffer end: perl-security#140
     DEBPKG:CVE-2022-48522.patch - [PATCH] Don't try to Sv[PI]V() on an 
undef index SV in find_uninit_var()
   Built under linux
   Compiled at Nov 23 2023 14:56:46
   %ENV:
PERL5LIB="/home/timothe/perl5/lib/perl5::/home/timothe/src/bioperl-1.6.924:/home/timothe/src/ensembl/modules:/home/timothe/src/ensembl-compara/modules:/home/timothe/src/ensembl-variation/modules:/home/timothe/src/ensembl-funcgen/modules"
     PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/home/timothe/perl5"
     PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base "/home/timothe/perl5""
     PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/timothe/perl5"
   @INC:
/home/timothe/perl5/lib/perl5/5.34.0/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
     /home/timothe/perl5/lib/perl5/5.34.0
     /home/timothe/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
     /home/timothe/perl5/lib/perl5
     /home/timothe/src/bioperl-1.6.924
     /home/timothe/src/ensembl/modules
     /home/timothe/src/ensembl-compara/modules
     /home/timothe/src/ensembl-variation/modules
     /home/timothe/src/ensembl-funcgen/modules
     /etc/perl
     /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34.0
     /usr/local/share/perl/5.34.0
     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.34
     /usr/share/perl5
     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base
     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34
     /usr/share/perl/5.34
     /usr/local/lib/site_perl
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