Hello Kristian, *, sorry for the delay, but had not the time to test the last days ... :(
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:22:25AM +0100, Kristian Nielsen wrote: > Thomas Hackert <[email protected]> writes: > > > [....] Starting MariaDB database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . > > . . . . . . . . FAIL . . . . . . . failed! > > invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. > > The problem is a failure while starting the server. ? I had not installed mysql-server (and its dependencies) before ... :( It seems, that it is a problem to try to stop a non-installed server before starting it, or am I wrong ;? > You need to find the error messages in the server error log. On my system > (Debian testing) it is in /var/log/daemon.log. Are you sure? My last entry there is from May 1st ... ;) Neither dmesg nor any other log files seems to report anything wrt mysqld ... :( But I discovered, that mysql itself creates a /var/log/mysql directory as well as *.err and *.log files (which are empty files). In /v/l/mysql are some mariadb-bin.00000$X binary files with one index file. Could they be of any help? And how do I use them? I am using Debian Testing AMD64 as well ... ;) > Find the messages logged by > mysqld, and if they do not provide you the answer immediately, send them to > the list. If I had any messages there, which differs from my formerly pasted ones ... ;) > Often such problems are existing /etc/mysql/my.cnf and/or old data directory > that are incompatible. If you are *sure* you do not need any existing data, > you can also try to purge (remove is not enough) all mysql/mariadb related Well, to purge is my preferred way to remove packages ... ;) > packages and try install again. This will *remove* any existing database and > let you try a fresh start. But this does not remove /etc/mysql, /var/lib/mysql, the aforementioned logs ... :( > Else check the error messages and probably the problem can be corrected. /If/ there would be any ... :( Would it be of any help, if I install a logging daemon (not sure, why I have no syslogd and/or alternatives of it installed ... :( I was pretty sure, that some progs need to log every now and then ... ;) )? But only one with no dependencies to mail servers or the like, please ... ;) I had tested it a little bit further. My findings so far: 1. I started the purging of mariadb and its dependencies again. 2. Started to install mariadb-server again. Still the same error message ... :( 3. Purged it again, removed all founded mysql files and directories, and tried to install mariadb-server again, but to no avail ... :( Sorry for the inconvenience and have a nice evening Thomas. -- Cancel me not -- for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain. -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
