**Reported in Launchpad by Valerii Kravchuk last update 18-07-2017 10:02:43

The following simple test performed on idle (no connections) almost "empty" instance of MariaDB 10.2.7 started with all defaults but port and datadir shows the problem:

openxs@ao756:~$ /usr/bin/xtrabackup --no-defaults --host=127.0.0.1 --port=3308 --datadir=/home/openxs/dbs/maria10.2/data --user=root --backup --compress --ftwrl-wait-timeout=5 --ftwrl-wait-threshold=300 --ftwrl-wait-query-type=all --target-dir=/home/openxs/backup
170716 13:16:52 version_check Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup;host=127.0.0.1;port=3308' as 'root' (using password: NO).
170716 13:16:52 version_check Connected to MySQL server
170716 13:16:52 version_check Executing a version check against the server...
170716 13:16:52 version_check Done.
170716 13:16:52 Connecting to MySQL server host: 127.0.0.1, user: root, password: not set, port: 3308, socket: not set
Using server version 10.2.7-MariaDB-log
/usr/bin/xtrabackup version 2.4.7 based on MySQL server 5.7.13 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: 05f1fcf)
xtrabackup: uses posix_fadvise().
xtrabackup: cd to /home/openxs/dbs/maria10.2/data
xtrabackup: open files limit requested 0, set to 1024
xtrabackup: using the following InnoDB configuration:
xtrabackup: innodb_data_home_dir = .
xtrabackup: innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:12M:autoextend
xtrabackup: innodb_log_group_home_dir = ./
xtrabackup: innodb_log_files_in_group = 2
xtrabackup: innodb_log_file_size = 50331648
InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
170716 13:16:52 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
xtrabackup: Generating a list of tablespaces
InnoDB: Allocated tablespace ID 1 for mysql/innodb_table_stats, old maximum was 0
170716 13:16:52 [01] Compressing ./ibdata1 to /home/openxs/backup/ibdata1.qp
170716 13:16:52 [01] ...done
170716 13:16:52 [01] Compressing ./mysql/innodb_table_stats.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/mysql/innodb_table_stats.ibd.qp
170716 13:16:52 [01] ...done
170716 13:16:53 [01] Compressing ./mysql/innodb_index_stats.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/mysql/innodb_index_stats.ibd.qp
170716 13:16:53 [01] ...done
170716 13:16:53 [01] Compressing ./mysql/gtid_slave_pos.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/mysql/gtid_slave_pos.ibd.qp
170716 13:16:53 [01] ...done
170716 13:16:53 [01] Compressing ./test/sbtest1.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/sbtest1.ibd.qp
170716 13:16:53 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:54 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:55 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:56 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:57 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:58 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:16:59 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:17:00 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:17:00 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:00 [01] Compressing ./test/tt1.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/tt1.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:00 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:00 [01] Compressing ./test/task.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/task.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:00 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:00 [01] Compressing ./test/incident.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/incident.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:00 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:00 [01] Compressing ./test/tt2.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/tt2.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:00 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:01 [01] Compressing ./test/t1i.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/t1i.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:01 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:01 [01] Compressing ./test/t.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/t.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:01 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:01 [01] Compressing ./test/bd.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/bd.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:01 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:01 [01] Compressing ./test/tt.ibd to /home/openxs/backup/test/tt.ibd.qp
170716 13:17:01 [01] ...done
170716 13:17:01 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
170716 13:17:01 Waiting 5 seconds for queries running longer than 300 seconds to finish
10:17:01 UTC - xtrabackup got signal 11 ;
This could be because you hit a bug or data is corrupted.
This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
Attempting to collect some information that could help diagnose the problem.
As this is a crash and something is definitely wrong, the information
collection process might fail.

Thread pointer: 0x0
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong...
stack_bottom = 0 thread_stack 0x10000
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(my_print_stacktrace+0x2c)[0xec559c]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(handle_fatal_signal+0x262)[0xa425f2]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10330)[0x7f1fab2be330]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3d467)[0x7f1fa91e2467]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(_Z11lock_tablesP8st_mysql+0x114)[0x738304]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(_Z12backup_startv+0x80)[0x73fdc0]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(_Z22xtrabackup_backup_funcv+0x140d)[0x722ead]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup(main+0xd2a)[0x70035a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7f1fa91c6f45]
/usr/bin/xtrabackup[0x717ef4]

Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup
openxs@ao756:~$

The problem is repeatable with 10.2.6, but is not repeatable with Percona Server 5.7.x or MariaDB 10.1.x.

Without these options everything works as expected:

openxs@ao756:~$ /usr/bin/xtrabackup --no-defaults --host=127.0.0.1 --port=3308 --datadir=/home/openxs/dbs/maria10.2/data --user=root --backup --compress --target-dir=/home/openxs/backup
...
170716 13:21:50 [01] Compressing ./test/sbtest1.frm to /home/openxs/backup/test/sbtest1.frm.qp
170716 13:21:50 [01] ...done
170716 13:21:50 [01] Compressing ./test/db.opt to /home/openxs/backup/test/db.opt.qp
170716 13:21:50 [01] ...done
170716 13:21:50 [01] Compressing ./test/t1i.frm to /home/openxs/backup/test/t1i.frm.qp
170716 13:21:50 [01] ...done
170716 13:21:50 [01] Compressing ./performance_schema/db.opt to /home/openxs/backup/performance_schema/db.opt.qp
170716 13:21:50 [01] ...done
170716 13:21:50 Finished backing up non-InnoDB tables and files
170716 13:21:50 [00] Compressing xtrabackup_binlog_info
170716 13:21:50 [00] ...done
170716 13:21:50 Executing FLUSH NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG ENGINE LOGS...
xtrabackup: The latest check point (for incremental): '298878836'
170716 13:21:50 >> log scanned up to (298878845)
xtrabackup: Stopping log copying thread.

170716 13:21:50 Executing UNLOCK TABLES
170716 13:21:50 All tables unlocked
170716 13:21:50 [00] Compressing ib_buffer_pool to /home/openxs/backup/ib_buffer_pool.qp
170716 13:21:50 [00] ...done
170716 13:21:50 Backup created in directory '/home/openxs/backup/'
MySQL binlog position: filename 'ao756-bin.000001', position '328', GTID of the last change ''
170716 13:21:50 [00] Compressing backup-my.cnf
170716 13:21:50 [00] ...done
170716 13:21:50 [00] Compressing xtrabackup_info
170716 13:21:50 [00] ...done
xtrabackup: Transaction log of lsn (298878836) to (298878845) was copied.
170716 13:21:50 completed OK!