<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Gabriel Marais <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriel.j.marais@gmail.com" target="_blank">gabriel.j.marais@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hi Guys</p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Recently I have been trying to install MySQL on a Ubuntu
14.04 container. The files are downloaded fine, and installation
continues to the point where one needs to specify the root
password for MySQL - At this point, after specifying the password,
the installation hangs as below:-</p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Setting up libaio1:amd64 (0.3.109-4) ...<br>
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.5 (5.5.55-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...<br>
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.55-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...<br>
170705 8:40:45 [Warning] Using unique option prefix key_buffer
instead of key_buffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a
future release. Please use the full name instead.<br>
170705 8:40:45 [Note] Ignoring --secure-file-priv value as server
is running with --bootstrap.<br>
170705 8:40:45 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld
5.5.55-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) starting as process 3846 ...</p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Nothing happens after this point.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Any ideas on what to look for?</p>
<pre class="m_8881424327187821281moz-signature" cols="72"></pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Look for for logs.</div><div><br></div><div>For mariadb it's in syslog (/var/log/syslog). I'm not sure where the default mysql installation puts its logs, try either syslog or the file *.err on /var/lib/mysql .</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Fajar</div></div></div></div>