Comment 17 for bug 1255451

I tested with Percona-Server-shared-compat and with Oracle MySQL shared compat however, i didn't faced any issues with Oracle MySQL shared compat but it few times failed with Percona-Server-shared-compat and sometimes worked during --version-check.

$ cat /etc/*release*
CentOS release 5.9 (Final)

$ rpm -qa | grep -i percona
 Percona-Server-shared-compat-5.5.34-rel32.0.591.rhel5

$ xtrabackup --version
xtrabackup version 2.1.6 for Percona Server 5.1.70 unknown-linux-gnu (x86_64) (revision id: 702)

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15 innobackupex --user=msandbox --password=msandbox --socket=/tmp/mysql_sandbox55528.sock --version-check .
140217 15:26:34 innobackupex: Executing a version check against the server...
Segmentation fault

$ rpm --nodeps -e Percona-Server-shared-compat-5.5.34-rel32.0.591.rhel5

$ rpm -ivh MySQL-shared-compat-5.5.36-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
       Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
   1:MySQL-shared-compat ########################################### [100%]

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15 innobackupex --user=msandbox --password=msandbox --socket=/tmp/mysql_sandbox55528.sock --version-check .
140217 15:57:02 innobackupex: Executing a version check against the server...
140217 15:57:02 innobackupex: Done.
140217 15:57:08 innobackupex: Connection to database server closed
140217 15:57:08 innobackupex: completed OK!