Same error here: running on Debian 6 LTS aka 6.0.10, mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.38 and PHP 5.4.40-1~dotdeb+squeeze.1 rokco commented May 3, 2015 just want to inform that me got the same error with debian and mysql. in my case the parameter BINLOG_FORMAT was set to STATEMENT....