diff --git a/core/gw_utils.c b/core/gw_utils.c
index c1d2a26a6..39e0cb1c6 100644
--- a/core/gw_utils.c
+++ b/core/gw_utils.c
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
  * 12-06-2013	Massimiliano Pinto	gw_read_gwbuff
  *					with error detection
  *					and its handling
- *
+ * 01-07-2013	Massimiliano Pinto	Removed session->backends
+					from gw_read_gwbuff()
  */
 
 #include <gw.h>
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ setipaddress(struct in_addr *a, char *p) {
 	struct hostent *h = gethostbyname(p);
 	if (h == NULL) {
 		if ((a->s_addr = inet_addr(p)) == -1) {
-			error("unknown or invalid address [%s]\n", p);
+			fprintf(stderr, "unknown or invalid address [%s]\n", p);
 		}
 	} else {
 		memcpy(a, h->h_addr, h->h_length);
@@ -86,11 +87,8 @@ int gw_read_gwbuff(DCB *dcb, GWBUF **head, int b) {
 	int n = -1;
 
 	if (b <= 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "||| read_gwbuff called with 0 bytes, closing\n");
-		if (dcb->session->backends) {
-			(dcb->session->backends->func).error(dcb->session->backends);
-		}
-		dcb->func.error(dcb);
+		fprintf(stderr, "||| read_gwbuff called with 0 bytes for %i, closing\n", dcb->fd);
+		dcb->func.close(dcb);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -99,10 +97,7 @@ int gw_read_gwbuff(DCB *dcb, GWBUF **head, int b) {
 		if ((buffer = gwbuf_alloc(bufsize)) == NULL) {
 			/* Bad news, we have run out of memory */
 			/* Error handling */
-			if (dcb->session->backends) {
-				(dcb->session->backends->func).error(dcb->session->backends);
-			}
-			(dcb->func).error(dcb);
+			(dcb->func).close(dcb);
 			return 1;
 		}
 
@@ -114,10 +109,7 @@ int gw_read_gwbuff(DCB *dcb, GWBUF **head, int b) {
 				return 1;
 			} else {
 				fprintf(stderr, "Client connection %i error: %i, %s\n", dcb->fd, errno, strerror(errno));;
-				if (dcb->session->backends) {
-					(dcb->session->backends->func).error(dcb->session->backends);
-				}
-				(dcb->func).error(dcb);
+				(dcb->func).close(dcb);
 				return 1;
 			}
 		}
@@ -125,10 +117,7 @@ int gw_read_gwbuff(DCB *dcb, GWBUF **head, int b) {
 		if (n == 0) {
 			//  socket closed
 			fprintf(stderr, "Client connection %i closed: %i, %s\n", dcb->fd, errno, strerror(errno));
-			if (dcb->session->backends) {
-				(dcb->session->backends->func).error(dcb->session->backends);
-			}
-			(dcb->func).error(dcb);
+			(dcb->func).close(dcb);
 			return 1;
 		}
 
diff --git a/include/session.h b/include/session.h
index 62a74720b..d6fe7ed2d 100644
--- a/include/session.h
+++ b/include/session.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
  * 01-06-2013	Mark Riddoch		Initial implementation
  * 14-06-2013	Massimiliano Pinto	Added void *data to session
  *					for session specific data
+ * 01-07-2013	Massimiliano Pinto	Removed backends pointer
+					from struct session
  * @endverbatim
  */
 #include <time.h>
diff --git a/modules/protocol/mysql_client.c b/modules/protocol/mysql_client.c
index 08e0e9350..b3da2b733 100644
--- a/modules/protocol/mysql_client.c
+++ b/modules/protocol/mysql_client.c
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ int gw_read_client_event(DCB* dcb) {
 	}
 
 	if (ioctl(dcb->fd, FIONREAD, &b)) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Client Ioctl FIONREAD error %i, %s\n", errno , strerror(errno));
+		fprintf(stderr, "Client Ioctl FIONREAD error for %i: errno %i, %s\n", dcb->fd, errno , strerror(errno));
 		return 1;
 	} else {
 		//fprintf(stderr, "Client IOCTL FIONREAD bytes to read = %i\n", b);
@@ -1145,9 +1145,7 @@ int gw_MySQLAccept(DCB *listener) {
 /*
 */
 static int gw_error_client_event(DCB *dcb) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "#### Handle error function gw_error_client_event, for [%i] is [%s]\n", dcb->state, gw_dcb_state2string(dcb->state));
-
-	fprintf(stderr, "#### Handle error function RETURN for [%i] is [%s]\n", dcb->state, gw_dcb_state2string(dcb->state));
+	fprintf(stderr, "#### Handle error function gw_error_client_event, for [%i] is [%s]\n", dcb->fd, gw_dcb_state2string(dcb->state));
 
 	return 1;
 }