I've re-installed a 32 version of Gentoo, installed the same components, and
it works now.
Maybe it was a problem with the 64 bits version.

Thanks to everybody for the support.
Thomas.

On 1/18/07, Thomas Balthazar <thomas.tmp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your answer!
> I've re-formatted the whole server and I'm re-installing Gentoo 32 bits
> instead of 64 bits.
> I want to see if I face the same problem.
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas.
>
> On 1/18/07, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thomas Balthazar wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm using Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 on a x86_64 Intel(R)
> > > Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz.
> > > I've added "dev-db/mysql innodb berkdb" to my package.use then I've
> > run
> > > emerge -1 dev-db/mysql.
> > >
> > > I've installed PHPMyAdmin that is up and running (MySQL 5.0.26).
> > > When I try to create a Innodb table, I get an error :
> > > #2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server during query
> > >
> > > After that, I cannot stop or start my MySQL server.
> > > Everything seems to be corrupted, and all I can do is to erase all the
> > > content of /var/lib/mysql and restart from scratch.
> > >
> > > Has anyone heard of problems with MySQL/InnoDB/Gentoo?
> > >
> > > Any help would be much appreciated!
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Thomas.
> >
> > Couple of things on this.
> >
> >         This whole community vs enterprise is making things a bit weird
> > at the
> > moment for ebuilds. For Innodb I highly recommend going with the
> > enterprise build, dev-db/mysql which you've already installed, and using
> > the ~arch version of 5.0.32. It fixes a number of high concurrency/multi
> > thread issues in Innodb and I'd move to it sooner rather than later.
> >
> >         Have you modified your my.cnf at all? The default Innodb
> > settings are
> > TINY. Assuming you have at least a 1 GB of RAM in you machine I'd bump
> > the following setting up so that you can fit real tables into Innodb.
> >
> > #innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
> > innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M
> >
> >         Innodb buffers and general Mysql buffers like key, sort, etc are
> > managed separately. If you're starting to migrate things into Innodb
> > from Myisam you might need to decrease some of the current buffers if
> > you've got limit RAM.
> >
> >         The Gentoo Mysql startup script is a bit retarded when starting
> > Mysql
> > with Innodb tables turned on the first time, at least with large tables
> > and log files. I use two 512M log files in production and the startup
> > script fails though Mysql is actually running, it's just pausing to
> > write the log files and initial ibdata files out. In your case I'd start
> >
> > and stop Mysql a few times before trying to create an Innodb table just
> > to be sure that Mysql is finished with all the file writes.
> >
> > I suspect the issues is Innodb not having enough memory assigned to it
> > rather than the binary being borked. You might also try creating a
> > simpler table in Innodb and see if you have the same issues.
> >
> > I'd also recommend adding the setting, innodb_file_per_table, so that
> > each table gets it's own ibdata file in the form of
> > lib/mysql/$db/$table.idb. It performs better and it is a bit easier to
> > tell how big your db is on disk or which db is using all your disk.
> >
> > kashani
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