Now I figured out the reason for MySQL Server 5.1.24 crash when used with InnoDB plugin 1.0. As I had a older my.cnf in the path and it had innodb_flush_method=fdatasync as the default flush method. But from 5.1.24 onwards, fdatasync is not supported as the flush method (not sure why we have such a change in the final stage of RC code, but …)
Even though I get an error in the mysqld.err log that InnoDB failed to register; but server starts and loads rest of InnoDB information schema plugins without the main InnoDB plugin.
InnoDB: Unrecognized value fdatasync for innodb_flush_method 080423 22:36:04 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 080423 22:36:04 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' …[Read more]