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Centos 7, MySQL cannot start and is not running, but can be accessed and can't be uninstalled?

Posted December 10, 2017 4.3k views
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I recently restarted a server that I’ve inherited (and therefore didn’t set up). Before the restart the webpages were accessing their SQL databases just fine — through MariaDB to a remote server. On the restart, they can no longer access their databases and the problem seems to be that MySQL/MariaDB isn’t running.

‘yum systemctl start mariadb’ brings up the error “Failed to start mariadb.service: Unit not found.” Strangely enough, I can still access the mysql shell with 'mysql -u <user> -p’ and commands in the shell seem to work just fine — but my webpages can’t access the databases.

When I try to uninstall and reinstall I get the error:

maraidb101u-common conflicts with 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2el7.x8664
maraidb101u-config conflicts with 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2el7.x8664
maraidb101u-libs conflicts with 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2el7.x86_64

I can’t make a backup with mysqldump either, so I’m trying to tread carefully. Does anyone have any idea of what can be done to troubleshoot this?

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Rajkishore October 26, 2021

Hi @jkaywallace,

I tried to recreate the error which you are seeing but systemctl start mariadb worked for me without any error.

[root@mariadbcentos7-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01 ~]# systemctl start mariadb
[root@mariadbcentos7-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01 ~]# systemctl status mariadb
● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-10-26 13:27:34 UTC; 4min 59s ago
  Process: 1606 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/mariadb-wait-ready $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1523 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/mariadb-prepare-db-dir %n (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1605 (mysqld_safe)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service
           ├─1605 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --basedir=/usr
           └─1770 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin --log-error=/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log --pid-file=/var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

You can check the below tutorial to guide you with Mariadb installation and backup :

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mariadb-on-centos-7

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-import-and-export-databases-in-mysql-or-mariadb

I hope this helps!

Regards,
Rajkishore

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