The issue seems to be that mysqld_safe is not supposed to be used alongside
systemd. As per [0], mysqld_safe keeps mysqld alive, duplicating systemd's work
and interfering with its own mechanism to restart the server.
My workaround has been to run
sudo systemctl edit mysql
and set the contents to
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld
And the correct solution should be to set ExecStart in
/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service to
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld
[0] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-management-using-systemd.html
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