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Install MariaDB on Ubuntu

Posted on June 29, 2013

After installing MariaDB when I try to activate MariaDB, I get the error Can’t lock aria control file. Installation of system table failed.

Has anyone successfully used MariaDB on droplets?

The pastebin of error at http://pastebin.com/rL0yWs6i

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Is mysql/mariadb already running? You’ll have to kill the process before you can run that command.

Finally, decided to uninstall MariaDB and install MySQL. It appears lot more information is available to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB but not enough to start using MariaDB from scratch. Once I have MySQL installed, configured and running, I may consider to do drop in upgrade to MariaDB.

service mysql status shows that * MariaDB is stopped. <br> <br><pre> <br>* /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 9.0 Distrib 5.5.31-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu on i686 <br>Copyright © 2000, 2013, Oracle, Monty Program Ab and others. <br> <br>Server version 5.5.31-MariaDB-1~precise-log <br>Protocol version 10 <br>Connection Localhost via UNIX socket <br>UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock <br>Uptime: 25 min 26 sec <br> <br>Threads: 1 Questions: 79 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 54 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 39 Queries per second avg: 0.051 <br></pre> <br>

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