On Sat 03 Dec 2005 13:48, you wrote: > I would suggest trying new kernel with old libc, just to see what happens > (but not the other way around, as that would break your system AFAIK). OK, I tried kfreebsd-image 5.4.8 with old libc (2.3-1+kbsd.11) and mysql works fine. So it seems the problem is with the new libc package.