Bug 681762 – dev-db/mariadb-10.2.22-r1 - /etc/init.d/mysql should create PID file through --make-pidfile

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description nic 2019-03-25 19:58:33 UTC]

openrc status dev-db/mariadb-10.2.22-r1 indicates it crashed. There is no longer a pid file created.


# /etc/init.d/mysql status
 * status: crashed

# cat /var/run/mysqld/mariadb.pid
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mariadb.pid: No such file or directory



I noticed "--make-pidfile" was removed from the init.d script. Adding that back corrected the problem.



I suspect the issue must really with package dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-2.3 ?

[Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2019-03-25 20:10:27 UTC]

Did you convert any custom MariaDB config from my.cnf to a file in /etc/mysql/mariadb.d?  It is required that accept the new my.cnf in dispatch-conf after that is done.

This is mentioned in the post-install notes

[Comment 2 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2019-03-25 20:11:18 UTC]

FWIW, --make-pidfile has not been in the OpenRC scripts in recent history, if at all

[Comment 3 nic 2019-03-26 15:26:39 UTC]

Correct. We successfully migrated our configurations to /etc/mysql/mariadb.d/ -- our configs have been added to files name 90-local-server.cnf on the respective master and slave instances. That all is working great ;)

These servers were initially built about a year or so ago. This weeks emerge world triggered an update to /etc/init.d/mysql for us -- did not occur when we upgrade packages last month.

I will do some more checking on our to determine if we can identified where that make-pidfile originated from. Interesting.


I guess what I should be concerned about why this isn't creating the appropriate pid file without that parameter.

Thank you

[Comment 4 nic 2019-12-17 17:13:36 UTC]

This adjustment is no longer needed with dev-db/mariadb-10.2.29