# I am getting segmentation fault while running xtrabackup with MySQL 5.6 version

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-while-running-xtrabackup-with-mysql-5-6-version/4032>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [January 31, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-while-running-xtrabackup-with-mysql-5-6-version/4032 "2015-01-31T00:07:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mageshkumar24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@mageshkumar24](https://forums.percona.com/u/mageshkumar24)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-while-running-xtrabackup-with-mysql-5-6-version/4032/1 "2015-01-31T00:07:07Z")

</div>

here are the details of RPM’s and percona xtrabackup version i am using in my server:

[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ innobackupex --user=backup --password=\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* --use-memory=500M /db01/

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy  
and Percona LLC and/or its affiliates 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under  
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

Get the latest version of Percona XtraBackup, documentation, and help resources:  
[url][Percona XtraBackup - MySQL Database Backup Software](http://www.percona.com/xb/p%5B/url%5D)

150130 22:57:50 innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN ‘dbi:mysql:;mysql\_read\_default\_group=xtrabackup’ as ‘backup’ (using password: YES).  
150130 22:57:50 innobackupex: Connected to MySQL server  
150130 22:57:50 innobackupex: Executing a version check against the server…  
Segmentation fault  
[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql  
MySQL-server-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
MySQL-shared-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5  
MySQL-shared-compat-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
MySQL-client-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ uname -a  
Linux [trprtelgldb3.intra.searshc.com](http://trprtelgldb3.intra.searshc.com) 2.6.18-274.18.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Feb 9 13:27:02 EST 2012 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux  
[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ rpm -qa | grep -i percona  
percona-xtrabackup-2.2.8-5059.el5

* * *

[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql  
MySQL-server-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
MySQL-shared-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5  
MySQL-shared-compat-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
MySQL-client-5.6.19-1.rhel5  
[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ uname -a  
Linux [trprtelgldb3.intra.searshc.com](http://trprtelgldb3.intra.searshc.com) 2.6.18-274.18.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Feb 9 13:27:02 EST 2012 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux  
[mysql@trprtelgldb3 db01]$ rpm -qa | grep -i percona  
percona-xtrabackup-2.1.7-721.rhel5

[mysql@trprtelgldb3 ~]$ innobackupex --user=backup --password=\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* --use-memory=500M /db01/

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy  
and Percona LLC and/or its affiliates 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under  
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

Get the latest version of Percona XtraBackup, documentation, and help resources:  
[url][Percona XtraBackup - MySQL Database Backup Software](http://www.percona.com/xb/p%5B/url%5D)

150130 23:01:23 innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN ‘dbi:mysql:;mysql\_read\_default\_group=xtrabackup’ as ‘backup’ (using password: YES).  
150130 23:01:23 innobackupex: Connected to MySQL server  
150130 23:01:23 innobackupex: Executing a version check against the server…  
Segmentation fault

Please let me know in fixing this issue.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![niljoshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/niljoshi/32/16889_2.png) [@niljoshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/niljoshi)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-while-running-xtrabackup-with-mysql-5-6-version/4032/2 "2015-02-09T00:32:43Z")

</div>

Hi,

It seems, its crashes while checking version against the server.

150130 23:01:23 innobackupex: Executing a version check against the server…  
Segmentation fault

Can you please try to run it with option?  
[url][The innobackupex Option Reference](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.2/innobackupex/innobackupex_option_reference.html#cmdoption-innobackupex--no-version-check%5B/url%5D)

Btw: which xtrabackup version you are using? (i.e xtrabackup --version) , I dont remember but there was one bug related to this in older version. I would suggest to use latest version of xtrabackup. Also you issue is related to this bug too but I’m not sure.  
[url][https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/1255451[/url]](https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/1255451%5B/url%5D)