title: c3p0 getConnection() throws exception: A ResourcePool could not acquire a resource from its primary factory or source
body: <p>We have a [Hibernate + c3p0 + MySQL] config for our project. We are hitting the following exception:</p>
  <pre><code>com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.CannotAcquireResourceException: A ResourcePool could not acquire a resource from its primary factory or source.
      at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.awaitAvailable(BasicResourcePool.java:1319) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.prelimCheckoutResource(BasicResourcePool.java:557) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.checkoutResource(BasicResourcePool.java:477) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool.checkoutPooledConnection(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:525) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
  Wrapped by: java.sql.SQLException: Connections could not be acquired from the underlying database!
      at com.mchange.v2.sql.SqlUtils.toSQLException(SqlUtils.java:106) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool.checkoutPooledConnection(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:529) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.AbstractPoolBackedDataSource.getConnection(AbstractPoolBackedDataSource.java:128) ~[c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar:0.9.1.2]
      at org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.getConnection(DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.java:141) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.internal.AbstractSessionImpl$NonContextualJdbcConnectionAccess.obtainConnection(AbstractSessionImpl.java:276) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.LogicalConnectionImpl.obtainConnection(LogicalConnectionImpl.java:297) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
  Wrapped by: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Could not open connection
      at org.hibernate.exception.internal.StandardSQLExceptionConverter.convert(StandardSQLExceptionConverter.java:52) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper.convert(SqlExceptionHelper.java:125) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper.convert(SqlExceptionHelper.java:110) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.LogicalConnectionImpl.obtainConnection(LogicalConnectionImpl.java:304) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.LogicalConnectionImpl.getConnection(LogicalConnectionImpl.java:169) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.doBegin(JdbcTransaction.java:67) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.AbstractTransactionImpl.begin(AbstractTransactionImpl.java:160) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.beginTransaction(SessionImpl.java:1263) ~[hibernate-core-4.0.1.Final.jar:4.0.1.Final]
      at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.doBegin(HibernateTransactionManager.java:399) ~[spring-orm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
  Wrapped by: org.springframework.transaction.CannotCreateTransactionException: Could not open Hibernate Session for transaction; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Could not open connection
      at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.doBegin(HibernateTransactionManager.java:440) ~[spring-orm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.getTransaction(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:371) ~[spring-tx-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.createTransactionIfNecessary(TransactionAspectSupport.java:336) ~[spring-tx-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:105) ~[spring-tx-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) ~[spring-aop-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202) ~[spring-aop-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:3.1.2.RELEASE]
      at $Proxy28.messageExists(Unknown Source) ~[na:na]
  </code></pre>
  <p>Our c3p0 config:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;bean id=&quot;provDataSource&quot; class=&quot;com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource&quot; destroy-method=&quot;close&quot;&gt;
  …
          &lt;property name=&quot;acquireIncrement&quot; value=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;
          &lt;property name=&quot;idleConnectionTestPeriod&quot; value=&quot;100&quot;/&gt;
          &lt;property name=&quot;minPoolSize&quot; value=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;
          &lt;property name=&quot;maxPoolSize&quot; value=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;
          &lt;property name=&quot;maxIdleTime&quot; value=&quot;1800&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>Note that we also have another similar c3p0 datasource configured on top of this MySQL instance.</p>
  <p>Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to debug this?</p>