@i.Tuzhilkin , You seem to be using 5.6.15-25.3, can you test with 5.6.15-25.4 which was released today? (which has "Server version: 5.6.15-63.0-log Percona XtraDB Cluster (GPL), Release 25.4, wsrep_25.4.r4043") Also, Please provide cnf as well as error log (and general log if any). In addition: a) Can you provide structure of the table before the crash? b) Also, if you have test data that can be loaded, please provide that I tested with sbtest and it didn't crash: ==================== MySQL [sbtest]> show create table sbtest1; +---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table | +---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | sbtest1 | CREATE TABLE `sbtest1` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `k` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `c` char(120) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `pad` char(60) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `k_1` (`k`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=100001 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 MAX_ROWS=1000000 | +---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) MySQL [sbtest]> alter table sbtest1 change c c varchar(200) NULL; Query OK, 100000 rows affected (2.79 sec) Records: 100000 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 MySQL [sbtest]> show create table sbtest1; +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table | +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | sbtest1 | CREATE TABLE `sbtest1` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `k` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `c` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL, `pad` char(60) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `k_1` (`k`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=100001 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 MAX_ROWS=1000000 | +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) MySQL [sbtest]> alter table sbtest1 change c c varchar(300) NULL; Query OK, 100000 rows affected (2.62 sec) Records: 100000 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 =================================================================