Hi all! Moin moin, Privet! I have the latest 5.3 compiled as well as a client's own storage engine. The compile, link, all went well. I do notice they only compile their engine statically, but see symbols for it in mysqld: ... 000000000081d4f0 T filepro_rkey 000000000081d9f0 T filepro_rnext 000000000081da80 T filepro_rprev 000000000081d350 T filepro_rrange 000000000081db20 T filepro_rrnd 000000000081ddc0 T filepro_scan 000000000081dde0 T filepro_scan_init 0000000000e747c8 B filepro_share_list 0000000000e52ea0 D filepro_storage_engine 000000000081de00 T filepro_update 000000000081e020 T filepro_write 0000000000e74798 b ha_filepro_exts ... So, when I start mysqld, I get the error: "[ERROR] Failed to initialize plugins." If I run this with strace, I don't see it trying to load a particular shared library file, just it logging messages to the log, opening replication log and index. So, not sure what I need to load with "plugin_load". When I configured MariaDB top compile, I used the following (per what the client uses with their successful build of MySQL 5.1.30) ./configure --with-plugins=all --without-plugin-oqgraph --with-charset=utf8 --enable-assembler --enable-profiling --enable-community-features --without-plugin-ndbcluster --prefix=/usr/local/maria I'm guessing that I'm missing something obvious and simple? Thank you in advance for any help! Patrick