SET GLOBAL log_output="TABLE";

CREATE TABLE t (a INT);

--let $shutdown_timeout= 0

--source include/restart_mysqld.inc

DROP TABLE t;

SELECT * FROM mysql.general_log;

mysqltest: At line 6: query 'SELECT * FROM mysql.general_log' failed: 1017: Can't find file: './mysql/general_log.CSV' (errno: 2 "No such file or directory")

The table is of course still there and is readable after REPAIR.

With some other combinations of queries and startup options different errors can be produced, ranging between more or less expected, such as "Got error 175 "File too short; Expected more data in file" from storage engine CSV", to confusing ones like "Cannot execute statement in a READ ONLY transaction" if the server is running under tx-read-only. I'm not sure whether they all have the same root cause (other than the expected table corruption upon a crash in the absence of automatic recovery), or they would need to be dealt with separately. So far I'll file the one above, as it is the strangest from those I've seen so far.