MySQL (MariaDB) Not Starting
Solution 1
If you haven't any real data in your database then clear all in /var/lib/mysql
.
After that try again to run command mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to initialize database directory.
Solution 2
cd /var/lib/mysql
ls
rm -r *
mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
systemctl start mysqld
systemctl start mysql.service
systemctl start mariadb
mysql
Then it works just fine
Solution 3
You need to run mysql_install_db
to initialize MySQL data directory.
Solution 4
Faced same problem. This got resolved after following below steps:
- Uninstalled the mariadb maridb-server packages
- Removed the directory /var/lib/mysql.
- Reinstalled the Mariadb, Mariadb-server packages.
- systemct start mariadb; systemctl enable mariadb
(problem solved).
Solution 5
I had same problem on Ubuntu 18.04m packages registered seem unable to start or else...
I resolved by adding correct package list and signature from the this site.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,arm64,ppc64el] http://mariadb.mirrors.ovh.net/MariaDB/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mariadb-server
et voila..
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Pranav Nutalapati
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Pranav Nutalapati over 1 year
I am running Arch Linux 4.8.4-1 on a 64bit installation. I installed MariaDB via
pacman
. When I try to start it withsystemctl start mysqld
, it gives meJob for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
The output of
systemctl status mariadb.service
is● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-11-02 16:55:12 IST; 3min 6s ago Process: 5123 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 5070 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= || VAR=`/usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ] && systemctl set Process: 5067 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 5123 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Status: "MariaDB server is down" Nov 02 16:55:11 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database server... Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop mysqld[5123]: 2016-11-02 16:55:12 140082509282496 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.1.18-MariaDB) starting as process 5 Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop mysqld[5123]: 2016-11-02 16:55:12 140082509282496 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/pranav-laptop.lower-te Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop mysqld[5123]: [90B blob data] Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server. Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Unit entered failed state. Nov 02 16:55:12 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
If I need to post anything else, let me know...
UPDATE: After trying Jérémy Munoz's comment, mysql still doesn't start, but I get a different
systemctl status mariadb.service
● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-11-02 21:03:24 IST; 4min 7s ago Process: 14350 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 14296 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= || VAR=`/usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ] && systemctl se Process: 14294 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 14350 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412958252224 [ERROR] Could not open mysql.plugin table. Some plugins may be not lo Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412958235392 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gti Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412362684160 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412958252224 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' d Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412958252224 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop mysqld[14350]: 2016-11-02 21:03:24 140412958252224 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mys Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server. Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Unit entered failed state. Nov 02 21:03:24 pranav-laptop systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
UPDATE: After running
mysql_install_db
, I get this error:FATAL ERROR: Could not find ./bin/my_print_defaults If you compiled from source, you need to either run 'make install' to copy the software into the correct location ready for operation. If you don't want to do a full install, you can use the --srcddir option to only install the mysql database and privilege tables If you are using a binary release, you must either be at the top level of the extracted archive, or pass the --basedir option pointing to that location. The latest information about mysql_install_db is available at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installing-system-tables-mysql_install_db
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Andrew Smith over 7 yearsYou seem lacking permissions to /var/lib/mysql/
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Pranav Nutalapati over 7 yearsWhich permissions should I set?
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Jérémy Munoz over 7 yearschown -R mysql. /var/lib/mysql/
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Pranav Nutalapati over 7 years@JérémyMunoz I tried your solution. It still doesn't start. I updated the question with the new error.
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Mikhail Khirgiy over 7 yearsPlease show your mysql/mariadb config from file
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
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Pranav Nutalapati over 7 years@MikhailKhirgiy Done!
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Mikhail Khirgiy over 7 yearsIf you haven't any real data in your database then clear all in
/var/lib/mysql
. After that try again to run commandmysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
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Pranav Nutalapati over 7 years@MikhailKhirgiy Yay! It worked! Post your comment as an answer so I can mark it...Thanks!
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kittygirl over 5 yearswhat's the methodology of this answer?
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moeiscool over 5 yearsis there anything else to try if this doesnt work?
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Pranav Nutalapati about 5 yearsHmm, that's interesting... So you had a problem with the installation to begin with? Linux thought it was installed when it really wasn't? That's really weird... For me what ended up happening was that my setup process didn't complete, so I had to manually do the
mysql_install_db
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Pranav Nutalapati about 5 years@kittygirl Hi, the objective of this is to recreate MySQL's data structure, either because it got messed up or because it didn't exist to being with. Or at least, that's how I understand it.
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Sairaj Gadekar over 4 yearsthis worked for me
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womble about 4 yearsHow exactly is a misconfiguration in Apache going to result in MariaDB being unable to start?
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marw about 4 yearsThis works especially if you had mysql and then purged it. Installing madiadb after that causes the error, and this fixes it.
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FoulFoot over 3 yearsThis worked for me! Kudos!
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Hossein Bajan almost 3 yearsThis solution work for me, Thanks bro.
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Jean-Roch Bécart about 2 yearsThis didn't worked for me: # mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql ... >You can start the MariaDB daemon with: >cd '/usr' ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir='/var/lib/mysql' ... # systemctl start mysqld >Failed to start mysqld.service: Unit not found.