MariaDB installation problem 'mariadb.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.'-CodePudding

I'm trying to reinstall MariaDB and I can't figure why the installation fails. I had MySQL installed previously and wanted to get MariaDB for versioning problems so if you guys can help, thank you. Here are some commands I did on my shell and the results. Really sorry about my shell being in French, hope you guys can help me anyway. Between, I have a Ubuntu 20.04tls OS.

> sudo apt autoremove --purge ~n^mysql-server

> sudo apt install mariadb-server

● mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.3.31 database server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2021-11-01 20:38:21 CET; 2min 1s ago Docs: man:mysqld(8) https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/ Process: 979 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER > > $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 979 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

nov. 01 20:38:19 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:19 0 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events

nov. 01 20:38:19 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:19 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.

nov. 01 20:38:19 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:19 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...

nov. 01 20:38:19 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:19 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /var/lib/mysql/ib_buff>

nov. 01 20:38:19 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:19 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 211101 20:38:19

nov. 01 20:38:21 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:21 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "ibtmp1"

nov. 01 20:38:21 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:21 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1625461;>

nov. 01 20:38:21 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 mysqld[979]: 2021-11-01 20:38:21 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

nov. 01 20:38:21 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

nov. 01 20:38:21 zemmouri-Inspiron-15-3567 systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB 10.3.31 database server.

And it fails on the installation menu: on the installation menu waiting for like 2 or 3 minutes then it shows this: Job for mariadb.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.

See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Paramètre de mariadb-server (1:10.3.31-00ubuntu0.20.04.1)...

Traitement des actions différées (<< triggers >>) pour systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.13)...

Traitement des actions différées (<< triggers >>) pour man-db (2.9.1-1)

Traitement des actions différées (<< triggers >>) pour libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2)...

CodePudding user response：

After some reachers i had a problem with the Symlinks that has been created from mysql-server installation so:

I fixed the problem with running:

sudo systemctl disable mysql.service

Then:

sudo apt autoremove --purge mysql-server* mariadb-server*

and finnaly:

sudo apt update

and after that just run lamp installation with this command and worked perfectly:

sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server php-mysql