Ok this is resolved, steps included below for Debian users who are
having the same problem:
The root of the problem when I went off the reservation and used a
testing package for mySQL in my Sarge distro (needed 5.0.x instead of
the Sarge 4.0.x). This caused the gem install mysql to error.
When I upgraded, libmysqlclient12 remained. So I removed that:
# apt-get remove libmysqlclient12
Also I removed all ancillary ruby packages since I did a manual
compile/install. There were probably a few conflicts in the list of
installed packages, so I decided to clean things up.
# dpkg -l | grep ruby
# apt-get remove libruby1.8
# apt-get remove libmysql-ruby1.8
# apt-get remove libmysql-ruby
Next I made sure I had the correct libmysqlclient package:
# apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev --fix-missing
Finally, I optimistically attempted to run the gem install:
# gem install mysql
And that finally ran without error. I then launched my app using
mongrel, and the lost connection error was gone.
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