we got a similar crash, the printed information is a little different. we are using Percona Server 5.5.18 130401 23:27:45 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 1348516160 in file btr0pcur.c line 414 InnoDB: Failing assertion: page_is_comp(next_page) == page_is_comp(page) InnoDB: We intentionally generate a memory trap. InnoDB: Submit a detailed bug report to http://bugs.mysql.com. InnoDB: If you get repeated assertion failures or crashes, even InnoDB: immediately after the mysqld startup, there may be InnoDB: corruption in the InnoDB tablespace. Please refer to InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html InnoDB: about forcing recovery. 130401 23:27:45 - mysqld got signal 6 ; 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=104857600 read_buffer_size=1048576 max_used_connections=526 max_threads=2100 thread_count=233 connection_count=233 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads = 3118475 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. Thread pointer: 0x2ab3f0d877f0 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 = 0x5060b0f8 thread_stack 0x80000 /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(my_print_stacktrace+0x39)[0x7ca5a9] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(handle_segfault+0x36d)[0x4ebded] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x3b7d20e7c0] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35)[0x3b7ca30265] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x110)[0x3b7ca31d10] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x856842] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x80db78] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x7e0ad1] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x59bd3b] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z10sub_selectP4JOINP13st_join_tableb+0x70)[0x5971f0] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x597694] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_ZN4JOIN4execEv+0x1272)[0x5a86f2] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z12mysql_selectP3THDPPP4ItemP10TABLE_LISTjR4ListIS1_ES2_jP8st_orderSB_S2_SB_yP13select_resultP18st_select_lex_unitP13st_select_lex+0x192)[0x5a9bc2] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z13handle_selectP3THDP3LEXP13select_resultm+0x1cb)[0x5aa5eb] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld[0x566200] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z21mysql_execute_commandP3THD+0x17b0)[0x568fc0] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z11mysql_parseP3THDPcjP12Parser_state+0x3ad)[0x56e4cd] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z16dispatch_command19enum_server_commandP3THDPcj+0x13ca)[0x56f8aa] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z10do_commandP3THD+0x106)[0x56fc06] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(_Z24do_handle_one_connectionP3THD+0x125)[0x60c715] /u01/mysql/bin/mysqld(handle_one_connection+0x4c)[0x60c83c] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x3b7d2064a7] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x3b7cad3c2d] after this . this instance keeps on crash again and again: InnoDB: a nonsensical page number 0 in a node ptr record at offset 101 130401 23:51:10 InnoDB: Page dump in ascii and hex (16384 bytes): len 16384; hex 000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ..... nnoDB: End of page dump 130401 23:51:10 InnoDB: Page checksum 1575996416 (32bit_calc: 2253597184), prior-to-4.0.14-form checksum 1371122432 InnoDB: stored checksum 0, prior-to-4.0.14-form stored checksum 0 InnoDB: Page lsn 0 0, low 4 bytes of lsn at page end 0 InnoDB: Page number (if stored to page already) 0, InnoDB: space id (if created with >= MySQL-4.1.1 and stored already) 0 InnoDB: Page may be a freshly allocated page 130401 23:51:10 - mysqld got signal 11 ;