Ubuntu 16.04 with Percona (fresh droplet) won't start after custom my.cnf

Hi,

I’ve just created a new droplet (16gb) with ubuntu 16.04.2. Ive installed percona and after i configured my.cnf (with percona tools) i can’t restart the mysql. It will timeout after a while.

In the my.cnf i have the following:

#
# The Percona Server 5.6 configuration file.
#
#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
#   The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored.
#   Please make any edits and changes to the appropriate sectional files
#   included below.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
!includedir /etc/mysql/percona-server.conf.d/

After those i put my percona tools config file.

# Generated by Percona Configuration Wizard (http://tools.percona.com/) version REL5-20120208

[mysql]

# CLIENT #
port                           = 3306
socket                         = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]

# GENERAL #
user                           = mysql
default-storage-engine         = InnoDB
socket                         = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
pid-file                       = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid

# MyISAM #
key-buffer-size                = 32M
myisam-recover                 = FORCE,BACKUP

# SAFETY #
max-allowed-packet             = 16M
max-connect-errors             = 1000000

# DATA STORAGE #
datadir                        = /var/lib/mysql/

# BINARY LOGGING #
log-bin                        = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin
expire-logs-days               = 14
sync-binlog                    = 1

# CACHES AND LIMITS #
tmp-table-size                 = 32M
max-heap-table-size            = 32M
query-cache-type               = 0
query-cache-size               = 0
max-connections                = 500
thread-cache-size              = 50
open-files-limit               = 65535
table-definition-cache         = 1024
table-open-cache               = 2048

# INNODB #
innodb-flush-method            = O_DIRECT
innodb-log-files-in-group      = 2
innodb-log-file-size           = 256M
innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 1
innodb-file-per-table          = 1
innodb-buffer-pool-size        = 12G

# LOGGING #
log-error                      = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-error.log
log-queries-not-using-indexes  = 1
slow-query-log                 = 1
slow-query-log-file            = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-slow.log

But it won’t start after this.

Shouldn’t i have some settings in this my.cnf? if i go into the folder /etc/mysql/percona-server.conf.d i have a mysqld.cnf where i have some settings. Should i replace these with my custom percona conf?

Appreciate all help i can get on this. Thank you!