I reproduced this problem on 4 node cluster from percona1-4. PXC 5.5.37 with wsrep 2.10(r175). I introduced bad network with loss/delay on percona1 1) After sometime cluster started malfunctioning all nodes went into wsrep_local_state_comment = Initialized and wsrep_cluster_status = non-Primary 2) I made percona2 as primary, all other nodes are into the cluster and percona1 (having network issues) still trying to connect and eventually entire cluster went down. wsrep stopped working & i have to issue kill -9 on all nodes to bring cluster up again. [root@percona2 ~]# mysql mysql> show status like 'wsrep%'; +----------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | wsrep_local_state_uuid | 9f581f39-eb03-11e3-8eb4-97664aaec97d | | wsrep_protocol_version | 4 | | wsrep_last_committed | 0 | | wsrep_replicated | 0 | | wsrep_replicated_bytes | 0 | | wsrep_received | 151 | | wsrep_received_bytes | 34204 | | wsrep_local_commits | 0 | | wsrep_local_cert_failures | 0 | | wsrep_local_replays | 0 | | wsrep_local_send_queue | 0 | | wsrep_local_send_queue_avg | 0.000000 | | wsrep_local_recv_queue | 0 | | wsrep_local_recv_queue_avg | 0.000000 | | wsrep_flow_control_paused | 0.000000 | | wsrep_flow_control_sent | 0 | | wsrep_flow_control_recv | 0 | | wsrep_cert_deps_distance | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_oooe | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_oool | 0.000000 | | wsrep_apply_window | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_oooe | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_oool | 0.000000 | | wsrep_commit_window | 0.000000 | | wsrep_local_state | 0 | | wsrep_local_state_comment | Initialized | | wsrep_cert_index_size | 0 | | wsrep_causal_reads | 0 | | wsrep_incoming_addresses | | | wsrep_cluster_conf_id | 18446744073709551615 | | wsrep_cluster_size | 0 | | wsrep_cluster_state_uuid | 9f581f39-eb03-11e3-8eb4-97664aaec97d | | wsrep_cluster_status | non-Primary | | wsrep_connected | ON | | wsrep_local_bf_aborts | 0 | | wsrep_local_index | 18446744073709551615 | | wsrep_provider_name | Galera | | wsrep_provider_vendor | Codership Oy