On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 7:49 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:25 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > I am unable to install MariaDB on debian 12. apt show says the > > > > mariadb-server is Version: 1:10.11.2-1. > > > > > > > > Failed to stop mariadb.service: Unit mariadb.service not loaded. > > > > invoke-rc.d: initscript mariadb, action "stop" failed. > > > > Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded. > > > > invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed. > > > > Attempt to stop MariaDB/MySQL server returned exitcode 5 > > > > There is a MariaDB/MySQL server running, but we failed in our > attempts to > > > > stop it. > > > > Stop it yourself and try again! > > > > > > Have you done that? > > > > > > > I do not have any instances of MySQL or MariaDB running. The unit files > are > > not even installed. > > The pre-inst script believes that you do. > > > > > new mariadb-server package pre-installation script subprocess > returned > > > > error exit status 1 > > > > > > If there is no mariadb or mysql server running, but the system > > > believes that there is, /var/lib/dpkg/info should contain a > > > mariadb.preinst script which can be examined for what mechanism > > > it is using to determine that. > > > ^ That. Go read it, execute it by hand, see what it is mistaken > about. > > -dsr- > Dan, Thanks for the info. I got it to install. I copied the mariadb.service file and made a soft link from it to mysql.service. I was able to successfully run `systemctl stop` against both service files. There was nothing to stop since there was no database installed but I tricked the script into thinking that it stopped the database. Anyway it was a little hacky but I got mariadb-server installed. Tim -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
