This is easy to confirm: [root@centos openxs]# mysql -uroot test Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 Server version: 5.6.23-72.1-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 72.1, Revision 0503478 Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> UNINSTALL PLUGIN audit_log; ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query mysql> exit Bye [root@centos openxs]# tail -100 /var/log/mysqld.log ... 2015-04-15 23:36:33 4337 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.6.23-72.1-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Percona Server (GPL), Release 72.1, Revision 0503478 2015-04-15 23:36:41 4337 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'audit_log' 20:36:41 UTC - 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. Please help us make Percona Server better by reporting any bugs at http://bugs.percona.com/ key_buffer_size=8388608 read_buffer_size=131072 max_used_connections=1 max_threads=153 thread_count=1 connection_count=1 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads = 69184 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. Thread pointer: 0x7ff703fe9000 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 = 7ff734a98d00 thread_stack 0x40000 /usr/sbin/mysqld(my_print_stacktrace+0x2c)[0x8cc59c] /usr/sbin/mysqld(handle_fatal_signal+0x461)[0x654f11] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf710)[0x7ff7344ad710] /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/audit_log.so(+0x34b7)[0x7ff7143ca4b7] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z21finalize_audit_pluginP13st_plugin_int+0x1f)[0x684d6f] /usr/sbin/mysqld[0x6e45c7] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z22mysql_uninstall_pluginP3THDPK19st_mysql_lex_string+0x35b)[0x6e4ffb] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z21mysql_execute_commandP3THD+0xffd)[0x6d585d] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z11mysql_parseP3THDPcjP12Parser_state+0x5c8)[0x6db7e8] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z16dispatch_command19enum_server_commandP3THDPcj+0xff9)[0x6dcf59] /usr/sbin/mysqld(_Z24do_handle_one_connectionP3THD+0x162)[0x6aa772] /usr/sbin/mysqld(handle_one_connection+0x40)[0x6aa860] /usr/sbin/mysqld(pfs_spawn_thread+0x143)[0xadc113] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x79d1)[0x7ff7344a59d1] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7ff732bbf8fd] Trying to get some variables. Some pointers may be invalid and cause the dump to abort. Query (7ff70ae0c010): is an invalid pointer Connection ID (thread ID): 1 Status: NOT_KILLED You may download the Percona Server operations manual by visiting http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/. You may find information in the manual which will help you identify the cause of the crash. Writing a core file