i see the error below over many months, AFAIK also with mySQL "This operation cannot be performed with a running slave; run STOP SLAVE first" is nice but out of scope due running the auto-tests /usr/bin/su -c 'cd /usr/share/mysql-test; ./mysql-test-run.pl --default-myisam --parallel=1 --max-test-fail=0 --mysqld=--binlog-format=mixed --skip-ndb --force' mysql __________________________________________________ rpl.rpl_stm_sql_mode 'stmt' [ fail ] Test ended at 2014-01-07 20:27:05 CURRENT_TEST: rpl.rpl_stm_sql_mode mysqltest: In included file "./include/rpl_init.inc": included from ./include/master-slave.inc at line 38: included from /usr/share/mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_stm_sql_mode.test at line 2: At line 179: query 'RESET SLAVE' failed: 1198: This operation cannot be performed with a running slave; run STOP SLAVE first The result from queries just before the failure was: include/master-slave.inc - saving '/usr/share/mysql-test/var/log/rpl.rpl_stm_sql_mode-stmt/' to '/usr/share/mysql-test/var/log/rpl.rpl_stm_sql_mode-stmt/' rpl.rpl_stm_user_variables 'stmt' [ skipped ] Not STATEMENT format