lnxdb1:~# /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/var --user=mysql --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/var/mysql.pid --skip-locking --log=/usr/local/mysql/var/mysql.log 060221 15:29:47 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally! InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files... InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite InnoDB: buffer... 060221 15:29:47 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at InnoDB: log sequence number 0 59399548. InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 59399548 InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file position 0 0, file name 060221 15:29:47 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 59399548 060221 15:29:47 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.18-debug-log' socket: '/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Source distribution mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built, or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware. We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail. key_buffer_size=8388600 read_buffer_size=131072 max_used_connections=10 max_connections=100 threads_connected=8 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 225791 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. thd=0x8be64d0 Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went terribly wrong... Cannot determine thread, fp=0xb50f6b2c, backtrace may not be correct. Stack range sanity check OK, backtrace follows: 0x8191e03 0xffffe420 0x8cf4520 0x81adcc9 0x8216750 0x8216c64 0x81b34bb 0x81b4960 0x81b4d6c 0xb7f6de70 0xb7e98c0e New value of fp=(nil) failed sanity check, terminating stack trace! Please read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Using_stack_trace.html and follow instructions on how to resolve the stack trace. Resolved stack trace is much more helpful in diagnosing the problem, so please do resolve it Trying to get some variables. Some pointers may be invalid and cause the dump to abort... thd->query at 0x8bf2180 = delete from server_messages using server_messages left join messages_and_servers on server_messages.id = messages_and_servers.message where server_messages.id = 4 and messages_and_servers.message is null thd->thread_id=3 The manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains information that should help you find out what is causing the crash.