Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception

Could this bug be related to #1853838: Widgets requeried??

Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.
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PDOException: SQLSTATE[08S01]: Communication link failure: 1153 Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes: INSERT INTO {batch} (bid, timestamp, token, batch) VALUES (:db_insert_placeholder_0, :db_insert_placeholder_1, :db_insert_placeholder_2, :db_insert_placeholder_3); Array ( [:db_insert_placeholder_0] => 175 [:db_insert_placeholder_1] => 1354186695 [:db_insert_placeholder_2] => yu4T05UyvLa-VVMuNTSRtLd_KiNWO_ZULi3MbxkgLFc [:db_insert_placeholder_3] => a:13:{s:4:"sets";a:3:{i:0;a:15:{s:7:"sandbox";a:0:{}s:7:"results";a:0:{}s:7:"success";b:0;s:5:"start";i:0;s:7:"elapsed";i:0;s:5:"tit.......................................
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