Version: '5.1.50' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 Gentoo Linux mysql-5.1.50-r1 101009 12:22:45 - 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=16777216 read_buffer_size=262144 max_used_connections=2 max_threads=151 threads_connected=1 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads = 133314 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. thd: 0x9304020 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... stack_bottom = 0xb2e4334c thread_stack 0x30000 /usr/sbin/mysqld(my_print_stacktrace+0x1e) [0x856f36a] Trying to get some variables. Some pointers may be invalid and cause the dump to abort... thd->query at 0x934c6b0 = select * from Member thd->thread_id=1 thd->killed=NOT_KILLED The manual page at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/crashing.html contains information that should help you find out what is causing the crash.