Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:25 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> > Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > > I am unable to install MariaDB on debian 12. apt show says the
> > > mariadb-server is Version: 1:10.11.2-1.
> > >
> > > Failed to stop mariadb.service: Unit mariadb.service not loaded.
> > > invoke-rc.d: initscript mariadb, action "stop" failed.
> > > Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded.
> > > invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed.
> > > Attempt to stop MariaDB/MySQL server returned exitcode 5
> > > There is a MariaDB/MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to
> > > stop it.
> > > Stop it yourself and try again!
> >
> > Have you done that?
> >
>
> I do not have any instances of MySQL or MariaDB running. The unit files are
> not even installed.
The pre-inst script believes that you do.
> > > new mariadb-server package pre-installation script subprocess returned
> > > error exit status 1
> >
> > If there is no mariadb or mysql server running, but the system
> > believes that there is, /var/lib/dpkg/info should contain a
> > mariadb.preinst script which can be examined for what mechanism
> > it is using to determine that.
^ That. Go read it, execute it by hand, see what it is mistaken
about.
-dsr-
Dan,
Thanks for the info. I got it to install. I copied the mariadb.service file and made a soft link from it to mysql.service. I was able to successfully run `systemctl stop` against both service files. There was nothing to stop since there was no database installed but I tricked the script into thinking that it stopped the database. Anyway it was a little hacky but I got mariadb-server installed.
Tim