[solved] emerge mariadb

[donjames]

Help!

I am trying to get mariadb up and running.  It installs and I can run mysql, but the 

emerge ---config dev-db/mariadb exits with the following error:

"Failed to initialize mysqld"

Even though I can start the database with "/etc/init.d/mysql start",  I can't access it because the config failed and it doesn't have my password.

Can someone give me a hint about what is going wrong here?

 

Thanks,

 

Don James

Edited June 14, 2018 by donjames
solved

[AdiosKid]

do you start the service before config ?

[donjames]

Here's what I did:

1) /etc/init.d/mysql start

It didn't start because there was no mysql database installed.

2) emerge --config dev-db/mariadb

Asked for password and created the mysql database.  It then exited with error: "Installation of system tables failed!

3)/etc/init.d/mysql start

mysql starts, but I can't access the database.

mysql -u root -p gives an error.  It won't accept the password that I entered earlier.

 

 

[AdiosKid]

clean the database folder on  /var/lib/mysql and try again.

[donjames]

Okay.  I finally got mariadb to work.

1) Deleted all of the flags recommended by https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MariaDB

2) Ran

USE="-client-libs" emerge -v mariadb

3) Ran

emerge --config =dev-db/mariadb-10.2.14

4) /etc/init.d/mysql start

It works!

Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions.

Sincerely,

Don James