Galera recovery process works in two phases. In the first
phase, mysqld is started as non-daemon with --wsrep-recover
to recover and fetch the last logged global transaction ID.
This ID is then used in second phase as the start position
(--wsrep-start-position=XX) to start mysqld as daemon.
As this process was implemented in mysqld_safe script, the
recovery did not work when server was started using systemd.
Fixed by introducing a shell script (wsrep_recovery.sh) that
mimics the first phase of the recovery process.
Use galera_new_cluster instead. systemctl start mariadb@bootstrap
will generate error message, use_galera_new_cluster.conf is the name
of the file that will generate this error.
Output:
Job for mariadb@bootstrap.service failed. See "systemctl status
mariadb@bootstrap.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
● mariadb@bootstrap.service - MariaDB database server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb@.service; disabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb@bootstrap.service.d
└─use_galera_new_cluster.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-10-15 19:27:52
CEST; 5s ago
Process: 24334 ExecStart=/usr/bin/false (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 24330 ExecStart=/usr/bin/echo Please use galera_new_cluster
to start the mariadb service with --wsrep-new-cluster (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 24334 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 15 19:27:52 spaceman systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database server...
Oct 15 19:27:52 spaceman systemd[1]: mariadb@bootstrap.service: main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 15 19:27:52 spaceman systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database
server.
Oct 15 19:27:52 spaceman systemd[1]: Unit mariadb@bootstrap.service
entered failed state.
Oct 15 19:27:52 spaceman systemd[1]: mariadb@bootstrap.service failed.
mariadb-service-convert during migration can create a file containing
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sysctl -q -w vm.drop_caches=3 if the users my.cnf
contains [mysqld_safe] flush_caches. This sysctl entry change requires root
access. No existing ExecStartPre requires execution requires execution
as another user.
There is a comment in the mariadb{,@}.service.in that indicates
mysqld_install which would require -u mysql to explicity change user to
mysql from root since PermissionsStartOnly=true.
Otherwise the following error would be generated:
Oct 14 07:38:38 spaceman systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database server...
-- Subject: Unit mariadb.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit mariadb.service has begun starting up.
Oct 14 07:38:38 spaceman sysctl[10089]: sysctl: permission denied on key 'vm.drop_caches'
Oct 14 07:38:38 spaceman systemd[1]: mariadb.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Oct 14 07:38:38 spaceman systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server.
