mariadb.service start stuck at activating
You probably had MySQL installed beforehand. Is a known bug: MySQL installs an AppArmor profile, and the MariaDB package fails to properly uninstall it (see details on Launchpad).
You can use these commands to solve the problem (adapted from the bug mentioned above):
sudo systemctl stop mariadb
echo "/usr/sbin/mysqld { }" | sudo tee /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld
sudo apparmor_parser -v -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld
This should display Removal succeeded for "/usr/sbin/mysqld".
Then, very important:
sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.sbin.mysqld
Without this, some AppArmor profile comes back after reboot (not sure from where), preventing MariaDB from loading at all (unable to load libaio).
You can then start MariaDB with sudo systemctl start mariadb
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Sarthak Kumar
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Sarthak Kumar over 1 year
I just installed the mariadb in my ubuntu 19.10 by
sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client
after when I am trying to start the server bysudo systemctl start mariadb.service
shell get freeze I have to useCtl+c
to get shell running.
In the status it's showing activating(start)- Other services are working fine with systemctl start
~$ sudo systemctl status mariadb.service mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.3.22 database server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d └─migrated-from-my.cnf-settings.conf Active: activating (start) since Mon 2020-04-20 08:44:57 IST; 5min ago Docs: man:mysqld(8) https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/ Process: 10705 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d /var/run/mysqld (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 10707 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 10711 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= || VAR=`/usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ] && systemctl set-environment _WSRE Main PID: 10759 (mysqld) Tasks: 15 (limit: 4915) Memory: 64.6M CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service └─10759 /usr/sbin/mysqld Apr 20 08:44:57 TheCybertron systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB 10.3.22 database server... Apr 20 08:44:57 TheCybertron mysqld[10759]: 2020-04-20 8:44:57 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.3.22-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.19.10.1) starting as process 10759 ...
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dortegaoh about 4 yearsCheck the log files of the service. It looks like the mysqld is in the process of a galera cluster recovery.
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Andrew Schulman over 3 yearsWorked perfectly. Thank you so much!
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rzo over 3 yearsWorked perfectly. Thanks !
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MWiesner over 3 yearsWorked nicely as commented for me as well! Thx
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Samuel about 3 yearsThis worked, but then I had to do another fix because /etc/mysql/debian-start was missing. Anyway, thanks a lot!
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Esteban over 2 yearsI wish all answers would work as good as this one. Thanks!!!!
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Admin almost 2 yearsAmazing answer, thank you so much