Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to build entity manager factory

Prezados,
Uma boa tarde!
Enfrento um problema em minha aplicação. Estou já há muitos dias tentando resolver, mas sem sucesso.
Ocorre que quando faço o deploy no servidor de aplicação funciona perfeitamente, faço minhas consultas e funfa sem problemas, mas após um período tento acessar novamente e não consigo.

DAO

public class PessoaDAO {
	EntityManager em = new Conexao().getEntityManager();
	EntityTransaction tx = em.getTransaction();
	Query query = null;
	Pessoa pessoa = null;
	
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public List<Pessoa> buscarPessoas(String email) {
		List<Pessoa> pessoas = new ArrayList<Pessoa>();
		System.out.println(email);
		
		if(!tx.isActive())
			tx.begin();
		
		tx = em.getTransaction();
		
		try {
			query = em.createQuery("SELECT p FROM Pessoa p WHERE p.email =:email");
			query.setParameter("email", email);
			pessoas = query.getResultList();
			tx.commit();
			em.close();
		} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (NoResultException e) {
			System.out.println("nao resultado");
			tx.commit();
			em.close();
		} catch(QueryException q) {
			System.out.println("erro: "+q);
		}
		
		return pessoas;
	}
}

Conexao.java

public class Conexao {
	//nome da unidade de persistencia definia no persistence.xml
	
	private static final String UNIT_NAME = "AnaAbrahaoInk";
	private EntityManagerFactory emf = null;
	private EntityManager em = null;
	
	public EntityManager getEntityManager() {
		if (emf == null) {
			emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(UNIT_NAME);
		}
		
		if (em == null) {
			em = emf.createEntityManager();
		}
		
		return em;
	}
	
	public EntityManager getEm() {
		return em;
	}
	
	public EntityManagerFactory getEmf() {
		return emf;
	}
	
	public static String getUnitName() {
		return UNIT_NAME;
	}
}

Persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
	
	<persistence-unit name="AnaAbrahaoInk">
		<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
		<non-jta-data-source>java:comp/env/jdbc/anaink</non-jta-data-source>
		
		<class>br.com.anaabrahao.bean.Pessoa</class>
		
		<properties>
			<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect" />
			<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="validate" />
			<!-- <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/anaink" />
			<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root" />
			<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="1234" />
			<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
			<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect" />
			
			<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
			<property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true" />
			<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" /> -->
		</properties>
	</persistence-unit>
25-Jun-2018 14:36:50.622 SEVERE [http-nio-6151-exec-1] com.sun.faces.context.AjaxExceptionHandlerImpl.handlePartialResponseError javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to build entity manager factory
    	at javax.faces.component.MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.invoke(MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.java:101)
    	at com.sun.faces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:102)
    	at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:315)
    	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:790)
    	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1282)
    	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationPhase.execute(InvokeApplicationPhase.java:81)
    	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
    	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:198)
    	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:646)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:230)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:165)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:192)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:165)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:108)
    	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:522)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
    	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
    	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
    	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
    	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
    	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:1110)
    	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
    	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:785)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1425)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
    Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to build entity manager factory
    	at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:83)
    	at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:54)
    	at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:55)
    	at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:39)
    	at br.com.anaabrahao.util.Conexao.getEntityManager(Conexao.java:21)
    	at br.com.anaabrahao.dao.impl.PessoaDAO.<init>(PessoaDAO.java:18)
    	at br.com.anaabrahao.controller.PessoaMB.buscarListaPessoas(PessoaMB.java:97)
    	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    	at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:247)
    	at org.apache.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:267)
    	at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagMethodExpression.invoke(TagMethodExpression.java:105)
    	at javax.faces.component.MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.invoke(MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.java:87)
    	... 30 more
    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper.convert(SqlExceptionHelper.java:126)
    	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper.convert(SqlExceptionHelper.java:112)
    	at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.DatabaseMetadata.getTableMetadata(DatabaseMetadata.java:158)
    	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validateSchema(Configuration.java:1329)
    	at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidator.validate(SchemaValidator.java:175)
    	at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:525)
    	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1859)
    	at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl$4.perform(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:852)
    	at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl$4.perform(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:845)
    	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.withTccl(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:398)
    	at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:844)
    	at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:75)
    	... 44 more

Caso precisem de mais informações para identificar o que pode estar acontecendo podem pedir.

Desde já agradeço a atenção de todos vocês.

Olá, seria importante o stacktrace do erro que está tendo

Ah, claro! Esqueci de colocar no final de tudo. já editei com a informação. Obrigado @Rodrigo_Void!

consegue o restante?
tá dando NullPointer ao validar seu schema

Esse tá rodando em produção, o tomcat só me deu isso. Baixei todo o log inclusive, lá ele mostra da mesma forma.
Como consigo ele completo?

ta usando q banco e versão?

innodb_version 5.7.22
protocol_version 10
slave_type_conversions
tls_version TLSv1,TLSv1.1
version 5.7.22-log
version_comment MySQL Community Server (GPL)
version_compile_machine x86_64
version_compile_os Linux

E por curiosidade verifiquei q a minha lib do mysql connector é versão 5.1.34. Está correto isso?

Talvez tente um mais novo como o 8
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java/8.0.11