[gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

[Thomas Balthazar]

Hello,

I'm using Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 on a x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU 2.66GHz.
I've added "dev-db/mysql innodb berkdb" to my package.use then I've run
emerge -1 dev-db/mysql.

I've installed PHPMyAdmin that is up and running (MySQL 5.0.26).
When I try to create a Innodb table, I get an error :
#2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server during query

After that, I cannot stop or start my MySQL server.
Everything seems to be corrupted, and all I can do is to erase all the
content of /var/lib/mysql and restart from scratch.

Has anyone heard of problems with MySQL/InnoDB/Gentoo?

Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Thomas.