Hello Kristian, *, On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:27:59AM +0100, Kristian Nielsen wrote: > Thomas Hackert <thack...@nexgo.de> writes: > > > It seems, that it is a problem to try to stop a non-installed server > > before starting it, or am I wrong ;? > > It does not look like the problem is stopping the server. The error is about a > failure to *start* the server.
O.K. > > 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 ... :( > > Ok, I was going to suggest moving away (or deleting if you don't need it) > anything in /etc/mysql/ and /var/lib/mysql/ and /var/log/mysql/. But seems you > already tried this, and it did not work... Unfortunately not ... :( > > /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 > > Hm, I wonder if this is related. The server logs messages to syslog for .deb > packages. I am not sure of the exact mechanism though. I wonder if the server > tries to log to syslog, this gives an error because of no syslog present, and > this is what causes the server start to fail? Should syslog not a dependency to install mariadb-server then? > There is not much I can say without a better idea of why the server fails to > start. One thing you could try is to try and start the server manually after > the install fails: > > sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start Done this before (but had apparently forgotten to mention it, sorry ... :( ). Leads to <quote> /etc/init.d/mysql start [....] Starting MariaDB database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [FAIL . . . . . . . failed! </quote> ... :( > You can try with strace -f to spot why it fails, or you can edit > /etc/init.d/mysql to make it more verbose in an attempt to spot what causes > the problem. Stuff like that. Well, I have "strace"d it to a file, but am not sure, what it is telling me ... :( The file is 7.2 MB ("bzip"ped only 340 KB) ... :( Is it possible to send it to someone, who is able to "read" strace? I am not, sorry ... :( > Or is there a way for me to reproduce the problem myself? I am not sure. I have only added mariadb's repository to my /etc/apt/sources.list, run "apt-get update" and tried to install mariadb-server, when I stumbled upon this problem ... ;) Thanks for your answers and have a nice evening Thomas. -- We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the strong should live. -- Kras, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp