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mahesmohan

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From: India

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 12

CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

I had to ditch my older arch installation and reinstalled arch using an old iso file I had. After that I ran a pacman upgrade.

I installed cmus my favorite music player and then it wont start. There is no error after pressing Enter key the cursor keeps blinking, thats it!

I thought I'd look into it later as I had to work on project of mine, Later I had move to a PHP project and then I had to setup the LAMP stack and mysqld service wont start.

Job for mysqld.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status mysqld.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

JournalCtl did not shed much light into the area..

Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar mysqld[8963]: 151013 20:14:55 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld (mysqld 10.0.21-MariaDB-log) starting as process 8963 ...
Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar mysqld[8963]: 151013 20:14:55 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/darkStar.lower-test
Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar mysqld[8963]: [96B blob data]
Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar mysqld[8963]: 151013 20:14:55 [ERROR] Aborting
Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar mysqld[8963]: 151013 20:14:55 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
Oct 13 20:14:55 darkStar systemd[1]: mysqld.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Anybody been here before ?

My priority is on the MariaDB issue at the moment. Are both the issues related ?

I'm running a desperate pacman upgrade hoping for the best.

Last edited by mahesmohan (2015-10-13 14:56:26)

nixpunk

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Registered: 2009-11-23

Posts: 271

Re: CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

That Mariadb version looks recent.

I'm running a desperate pacman upgrade hoping for the best.

This makes me wonder if you installed mariadb/cmus using pacman -Sy <pkgname>.  If so, that would seem the issue.

mahesmohan

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From: India

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 12

Re: CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

I did update package list, I usually do installation and updating package lists induvidually nd sync lists before installation always.

I fixed the mysql service issue. After the upgrade the issue was still there so I went through the wiki unfortunately I had missed the execution of a script after installation that generates the /var/lib/mysql/darkStar.lower-test file. MariaDb is up and fine. The mistake is mine. I take all the blame for MariaDb.

The issue with cmus continues.

Wiki mentions a few variables be set to enable playback with alsa. I have to try that. But I dont think the setting of these variables will result in cmus not loading.

Let me set those variables.

mahesmohan

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From: India

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 12

Re: CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

CMUS still the same.

I even tried installing the git version from AUR still the blinking cursor nothing else.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46447

mahesmohan

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From: India

Registered: 2013-06-08

Posts: 12

Re: CMUS wont start SystemCtl cant start mysqld service..

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46447

Yes its some consolation that the whole world is suffering the same problem

Thanks Scimmia and nixpunk for the support..