Folks
I'm having problems installing Mariadb in Centos 7.
Here's what I did:
0) Become root
1) Make sure that mariadb and mysql are NOT installed.
2) Delete residual libs
rm -rf /var/lib/mysq*
3) yum install -y mariadb-server
installed mariadb-5.5.50-1.el7_2.x86_64 from the Centos
'updates' repository
4) systemctl start mariadb
5) systemctl status mariadb
All works well until step 5, where I get the result:
# systemctl status mariadb
? mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-09-22 17:46:38
PDT; 4min 3s ago
Main PID: 16261 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]:
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 139: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]:
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 183: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: touch: cannot touch
`/var/log/mysqld.log': Permission denied
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: chown: cannot access
`/var/log/mysqld.log': No such file or directory
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: chmod: cannot access
`/var/log/mysqld.log': No such file or directory
Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service: main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service: control
process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB
database server.
Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: Unit mariadb.service entered
failed state.
Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service failed.
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[root at goat ~]#
My environment is a Centos 7 installation running as a VM inside
Vmware, and is not a production system. It is updated nightly.
When I examined the files alluded to,
/var/log/mysqld.log
does not exist
but
/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log
exists and is empty.
Adivce would be appreciated
Thanks
David