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After a Crash InnoDB Transactions Fail With the Error: ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction; XA Transactions (Doc ID 1911871.1)

Last updated on MAY 16, 2023

Applies to:

MySQL Server - Version 4.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After a crash of MySQL where XA transactions are used, some queries always encounter the error:

Notice transaction 3427 that is listed as a prepared recovered transaction. The start time of the transaction is at the same time as the last restart of MySQL.

Changes

The MySQL instance crashed - for example while the disk with the binary logs were full.

Cause

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