Well the new things are cool to test and learn. But it is not possible every time, to have smooth testing process. if you can’t get right software on your hand.

So there are great articles about this new plugin here you can follow all of them: Group Replication Topics

I must say that, plugin available for download as source code and as for Oracle Linux 6 x86_64 from -> labs.mysql.com

So if you want to try it with MySQL 5.7.8-rc2 on Ubuntu you should compile it with MySQL. But you will not be able to compile due to well known ‘boost’ dependency -> see BUG #78600

UPDATE to BUG 78600:

Pedro Gomes clarified the reason of …

In previous article, we have covered some errors and issues with using MySQL in “disk full” environment. Where there was no space left on device.(See here: Testing Disk Full Conditions)

Today’s scenario is -> Starting MySQL with GTID/binary log enabled, in 0 space left Linux(CentOS 6.5) environment.

If you hit a bug or problem, general rule for helping community to fix it is to provide as much information as possible. Especially useful is to give gdb output from coredump. To get coredump you can read this wonderful article Hunting-The-Core

Now let’s explore our situation. Because our segfault is detected while starting MySQL, it is not possible to attach PID to GDB and also using strace. Our my.cnf file:

[mysqld] 
log_bin = …