With minecraft server, you can use craftbukkit to add plugins to create a custom minecraft server for minecraft clients. An easy way to test this bug is to use the combination of minecraft, craftbukkit and permissionsex. Craftbukkit and PermissionsEx should be confingured in their yml files to use the mariadb database. Minecraft runs on java. In my case, I use openSUSE_12.1 x86_64 with the latest openjdk6, but Ubuntu or any other good distro will produce the same results.

After running for a minute or sometimes less, database connections start becoming lost. As time passes, more an more become lost and you end up in a state where no connections are possible. To fix the issue, either revert to 5.3.4 or any earlier version of Mariadb (no database change required). Or revert to 5.2.10 or earlier, but a database rebuild will be required since the binary structure was updated for the 5.3.x series.

My belief is that the issue is larger than minecraft and extends to any java program. Minecraft uses the standard java connector so it may be that an update is required there. As I stated earlier, it runs just fine with all versions prior to 5.3.5.

Mariadb generates no errors or warnings, but I do get messesages from MInecraft stating that the database connection was lost or that the database could not be found. I am running minecraft on the same server as mariadb and the connection is as localhost.

Thanks,

Alex